…Because the pendulum of Edgewood’s government swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth on a regular basis, and town policies trail along in the wake of its movement.
- In the years after incorporation Edgewood’s Town Administrator/Planning & Zoning Director/IT manager, Karen Mahalick, worked first as a volunteer and later as an employee with several different mayors each of whom had different views of how to interact with Santa Fe County.
- Despite the changes in town government which came along following each election, she worked with the County on several projects including the building of the fire station on Section 16.
- By the time of the October 25, 2013 opening ceremony for the Edgewood Fire Station, Ms. Mahalick had been gone from town government for over a year, but her arrival was greeted with cheers and applause.
- The facility was new and bright; optimism for Edgewood’s future was in the air.
- The current state of the relationship between Town and County is troubled due in part to intransigence on the part of a few Edgewood residents who have leveraged themselves into positions of power but have no clue how government works in the real world.
Hat tip to a blog reader’s observation on the current unkempt appearance of the fire station which jogged my memory.