solutions?

As disturbing a post as The Real Question was, they bring up an important point- how do we prevent this disaster of a City Manager from happening again? A strong Council asking the right questions would be a BIG help. It is clear that this Council has been a lapdog and rubber stamp for whatever costs the City Manager wants. Continued HUGE cost overruns, missed deadlines with NO penalties, and expensive change orders have been the results we, the taxpayers, have been asked to pay for- at least 600k at last count. Then they raise our fees and taxes to cover their butts and incompetencies, sweetheart deals, and disorganization. The buck is supposed to stop at the City Manager's desk. It certainly stops at his desk on payday, why not any other day? He blames it on the Council and says he is just following orders. The clueless Council directed him to pay over $400 a square foot for the bathrooms? The Council FORGOT to include the VERY EXPENSIVE elevations into the total price? The uninformed Council FORGOT to include the expensive costs of the electrical, water, and sewer hookups for the bathrooms? The ramps? The washed-out slab supports for the Stafford bathrooms? The rubberstamp Council is responsible for the bathrooms taking TWO YEARS and more to complete? The whatever-you-say-gym Council is responsible for there being NO penalties written into the contract AGAIN for the construction company after waiting TWO YEARS for it to be completed? Please. Every project he is associated with ends up several hundred thousands of dollars more than the usual and customary costs anybody else would have to pay! Why is that? Where is that money going? The contractors say it isnt going to them. So WHERE is it going? And this is just ONE project- there are other fiascos.