Port Angeles City Council gets an earful from community members — but says little

PORT ANGELES — More than a dozen pointing fingers, at least seven suspects, but still no smoking gun.

Fifteen Port Angeles residents or business owners spent almost an hour Tuesday telling City Council members they’d better shape up and confess.

When the chance came, however, the council members decided they’d come clean later.

That left people still wondering:

  • What prompted City Manager Mark Madsen to accuse one or more City Council members of interfering with personnel and labor issues and two police investigations?

  • Was the behavior so bad that Madsen had to go public with memos that unnamed “inappropriate council members” made “intrusions into administrative matters?”

  • Was the council so divided that Madsen had to resign, saying he would stay until Sept. 1, at the latest?
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