I happened to read the answer to your “Question of the week” from your May 15 edition:

“Are Redmond’s City Council members doing a good job?” The answer to the poll was Yes: 36.8% No: 63.2%.

Thank you for the poll. I found it timely with your excellent reporting done on the City Council and mayor in the same edition. It was also an eye-opener.

I was surprised that nearly two thirds of those polled felt Redmond City Council members were not doing a good job. That is a significant number of people! So how does one think the council could do better? Re-look at the city’s growth policy? Are we growing too fast? Establish greater efficiencies within the government? Should council have to ask us for more levy money? Pay more attention to neighborhood issues? Is council over-involved in regional issues? City Council follows Mayor John Marchione in lock-step. Should they be more outspoken?

Which leads me to my second point. I just found out Mayor Marchione’s office is being contested by a credentialed, qualified candidate by the name of Steve Fields.

He has had the chance to see King County and City of Seattle operations from all perspectives in his government work and now he runs Down Pour Coffee Bar caddy corner from Tech City Bowl on 132nd Avenue Northeast.

Bob Yoder,

Redmond