The Times/News of June 21 contains a statement by Burien Mayor McGilton regarding a "contentious city council and city manager that rammed through an annexation process and built a lot of distrust of that council" - to paraphrase the quote.

Maybe it's time for the members of this council to acknowledge that nothing was "rammed through" and our duly elected council representing all of us worked hard to deal with a thorny problem that was really hard for the community at large to grasp.

Please Madam Mayor, let the past go and use your talents to keep working the problem without rancor.

Dean Parkins

Burien