What I Learned At The Davis County Truth-In-Taxation Hearing

I doubt that I’ll ever be an elected official. If I am ever in that type of a position I think I learned more about the necessary qualities of a local government leader in my hour and a half at tonight’s hearing than I’d ever learn from any civic leadership manual or book.

Here are a few things I learned about effective/ineffective leadership, accountability, demographics, and mob psychology at tonight’s hearing:

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Hansen’s Tombstone

I like Jim Hansen and think very highly of him as a former officeholder, great citizen and former dependable hometeacher of my parent’s family when I was growing up. That said, I think anyone who lobbies local government this vigorously for a large monument to himself in the city cemetery is a little sad. Maybe I’ll feel differently about it when I’m a little closer to needing a final place to plant my bones.