How to pay the high cost of renaming a street

One depressing thing about Portland's city council is that not one member is willing to say in public -- maybe not one member believes it -- that it's a waste of the city's time and money to fiddle around with street renamings, and that he or she will therefore vote against any street renaming, period.  The cost to the city treasury of the current project, if it passes today, is roughly comparable to the cost of having a sixth city commissioner. 

Hmmm . . . maybe the answer is that for every street renaming, the city council must vote one of its members off the island for a year.