Standard-Examiner: Council Prescribes Take-backs

A new era in Ogden City Council politics, wherein new resolutions and ordinances will only be enacted with the permission of those who would be bound by such laws

Just as predicted in Monday's WCF story, the Standard-Examiner reports this morning that the Ogden City Council has indeed taken the course of least resistance, last night adopting a resolution "asking the police department to hold quarterly medication take-back events," meaning that the OPD will collect unused prescription medication on four days per year, rather than the 365 days per year which would have been available had the Council passed a resolution requiring maintenance of a permanent drop box in Ogden's public Safety Building. Significantly, Ogden Police Chief Greiner, who decides on a case-by-case basis those laws which he will obey and those which he will ignore, has graciously agreed, Mr. Schwebke reports, that "he will comply with the council’s request for the collection program":

• Council prescribes take-backs

We thus witness, we suppose, the ushering in of a new era in Ogden City Council politics, wherein new resolutions and ordinances will only be enacted with the explicit permission of those who would be bound by such laws.