Probably not too many of us are familiar with our Town Attorney Tobin Rosen. Most of us that know Mr. Rosen know him from council meetings, where, when necessary, he gives his legal opinion when asked; usually on an issue that needs legal clarification.
However, Mr. Rosen does a lot more than that on behalf of our community.
I want to share a letter Mr. Rosen sent to the Town Attorney in Scottsdale on June 4. The letter is in reference to Turken v. Gordon Supreme Court Case No. CV-09-0042-PR.
Mr. Rosen writes:
Yesterday, the Oro Valley Town Council authorized and directed me as Town Attorney of Oro Valley to sign on to the amicus curiae brief that the City of Scottsdale is preparing to file in the Arizona Supreme Court in support of the Court of Appeals Decision in Turken v. Gordon.
Please let me know if I can be of any assistance to you in the preparation of editing a brief. Given the admittedly tight timeline for preparing and filing the brief, I will accommodate you and your office in any way I possibly can. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for allowing and assisting the Town of Oro Valley to participate with you in this important matter.
Very truly yours,
Tobin Rosen
Town Attorney
I only have two comments.
1) Mr. Rosen was directed by the OV Council to write the letter. Nobody had to tell Mr. Rosen to
show such grace and class in his choice of words.
2) It would have been nice if Mr. Rosen could have said, the Oro Valley Town Council unanimously authorized and directed him. Unfortunately Mayor Loomis & Councilman Kunisch voted "no."
Their terms expire in 2010. Inasmuch as they refused to support our community, please try to remember this as another reason why they don't deserve our support in any future election.
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Town Attorney Tobin Rosen, dignified and knowledgeable, is most certainly an asset to our community.
I find it rather interesting that, after all of this time, having a legal action in process with Statewide implications, with said action having been brought into serious local review by an action of local Council, that said Council with legal consultation had agreed to withhold in 'escrow' such revenues as are relative to such action, that an absolute adjudication is just 'around the corner', yes, I find it rather interesting that a Mayor can claim that he [doesn't know enough about the situation to vote on the approval of an amicus brief]. In thirty minutes, our Mayor, can steer our Council into taking money from a contingency fund thus allowing for a bloated governance, and, in doing so, blindside and override the Town Manager who is highly compensated to analyze and 'control' the operations of Town, but yet, in a period of approximately 2 years, he can't learn enough about an issue with serious implications in order that he make an informed decision relative to it(?). WHOA!
As to Mr. Kunisch, the other Council member who voted against this 'brief', this was the same person who said [I don't know anything about the Critical Path Institute but I'm going to vote to give them $25,000 of the Town's money anyway].
So much for a fully informed Council!
Geez Zev! We ought to put your above comment on a poll question.
Simple enough.
Is this comment one of the most astute intelligent comments since this blog's inception?
Talk about nailing it! Great job Zev!
Zev's observation is brilliant!
I hope that if Loomis or Kunisch decide to run for re-election, that Zev will turn those comments into a letter to the editor of the Explorer, timed to run at the same time the ballots are mailed out.
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