COMMENTARY An Ethical Inquiry Into The City of Carmel-by-the-Sea City Government By Mayor Pro Tem Victoria Beach, Mayor Jason Burnett and City Council Members Ken Talmage, Carrie Theis & Steve Dallas?

Victoria Beach, AIA for AIArchitect, wrote about “ethics” in AIAPractice, An Ethical Inquiry, Part 1 (August 2, 2013), An Ethical Inquiry, Part 2 (September 3, 2013) and An Ethical Inquiry, Part 3 (September 15, 2013).  Commenting on the aforementioned essay An Ethical Inquiry, Part 3, David Greusel, Convergence Design Founding Principal, stated in “Aesthetics are Ethics”, CONVERGENCE DESIGN, October 25, 2013,  Victoria Beach, AIA, “asserts that architects’ primary moral authority (and responsibility) is aesthetic, not public safety,” “aesthetics is inextricably linked to ethics, morality, goodness, and the way things ought to be. And that these are where the architect’s highest responsibility lies.” If “aesthetics are ethics” in the profession of architecture, then certainly the issues on the PETITION TO TERMINATION THE CURRENT CITY ADMINISTRATOR, specifically “a lack of transparency,” “terminations or resignations” “splitting of contracts,” lawsuits, et cetera, are “ethics” in city government worthy of our elected representatives’ attention, official deliberation and action. Did the City, specifically City Administrator Jason Stilwell and Administrative Services Director Susan Paul, treat IT Manager Steve McInchak ethically in the context of his claims in his VERIFIED PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE SECTION 1085) AND COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT, BREACH OF CONTRACT, DEFAMATION AND INTENTIONAL AND NEGLIGENT INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, Steven Mclnchak, Petitioner/Plaintiff v. City of Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Does 1 through 50, inclusive, Respondents/Defendants (Case No. M128062)?  Did the City, specifically City Administrator Jason Stilwell and Administrative Services Director Susan Paul, treat former Building Official John Hanson ethically in the context of his claims in his COMPLAINT, JOHN HANSON, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA and DOES 1 through 100, Defendants (Case No. M128436)?  Have Mayor Jason Burnett and Mayor Pro Tem Victoria Beach acted ethically when they were in a position to place the PETITION TO TERMINATION THE CURRENT CITY ADMINISTRATOR on a City Council Agenda, specifically the City Council Agenda Closed Session and Special Meeting Thursday, August 14, 2014 and/or City Council Special Meeting Agenda, Monday, August 25, 2014 and failed to place it on an agenda for discussion, deliberation and action?  Have Mayor Jason Burnett, Mayor Pro Tem Victoria Beach, City Council Members Ken Talmage, Carrie Theis and Steve Dallas acted ethically by not honestly and directly confronting all the issues raised on the PETITION TO TERMINATION THE CURRENT CITY ADMINISTRATOR?  Is the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea a community of ethical citizens by virtue of its elected representatives on the city council not taking the concerns of their constituents seriously, and arguably acting unethically?

Written & Published by L. A. Paterson