Ya Gotta Love Forced Reasoning or Why The County Mayor Didn't Respond To City Offer

In The Courier this week Mayor Davis attempted to answer the question, Why Didn't the County Respond to the City Offer about the One-Cent Sales Tax?

Let me see if I have this right.

Background

In January the City Manager, in a letter in his official capacity on city letterhead, Welch offered to give the county for school construction one-third of the city’s share of the one-cent sales tax increase for a decade.

The county never did respond, although the city invited a response several times. Mayor Davis told the Courier he did not formally respond, (whatever formally means), because he "did not think it was their best offer."

The Mayor then went on to say that because the letter came from the city manager without an official endorsement, (whatever official endorsement means), by the city commission, "to me, it wasn’t a legitimate offer."

Although Mayor Davis says he believes the city is on firm legal footing in deciding to keep their half of the one-cent sales tax for the municipality’s own use , ‘that’s not the way [he] understood it when [he] voted as a citizen’ and went on to say ‘what was being said back then is not being met today.’

City Mayor Shutt points out that the city never did get an answer, they couldn’t get anyone to talk to them and they asked more than once.

Conclusions

Mayor Davis has no concept of negotiating. It appears as if his version is, you just keep making offers to me until I think your offer is the best your going to make. Well, Duh!!

Mayor Davis not only did not ‘formally’ respond, in fact, he didn’t respond at all.

Mayor Davis insults the City of Savannah and the City Manager when he questions the legitimize of the written offer on City letterhead.

Mayor Davis cost the county $300,000.00 in free money, this fiscal year, and at least $3,000,000.00 over the next 10 years, by not having the skill set to pick up the phone and say, ok, let’s see what it look like in writing or can we get together and talk about it.

The bottom line is - To follow the logic of Mayor Davis, he didn’t think it was ‘their’ best offer and didn’t think ‘they’ made it.

Respectfully submitted for your consideration.

Ted