If democracy could somehow be rendered in liquid form, Columbia Tower would be underwater.

For proof, look no further than Mayor Mike McGinn, who couldn’t find a dozen people to attend the first meeting of his Police Chief Committee last week, but who remains undeterred in asking the public once again to help him make decisions they elected him to think through for them.

In a video posted the same day as the one in which he discussed a new chief, McGinn announced his new Family and Youth initiative. Which will consist of—we’re not exaggerating here—five town halls, 50 to 100 “community caucuses” (they’re proposing so many meetings, they’re running out of synonyms for “meetings”), and finally, exhaustively, a call for even more ideas at a new Web page, seattle.gov/engage.

What will come of so much civic engagement? Why, an action plan, of course.

What will be the end result of this action plan? We have no clue.

As McGinn says in the video, “Wherever this discussion leads us, we’ll go there.” Well, at least he’s not being too broad.

The mayor is drowning us in ways we can help him help us. Here’s hoping he doesn’t propose another committee to figure out how to solve this newest problem.