Jesus TapDANCING Christ...
I just posted this article on the Starkenburg contract... (Link HERE.)
And in that article I made a point of writing this:
Well, what a difference a day makes.
Today, the day of the meeting, the agenda has been modified to move the contract from being an introduction item to an action item.
The Council will be voting on this matter tonight. With no goddam notice.
Here is how things are supposed to work...
An ordinance is introduced at one meeting so that the public can get a chance to look it over before the Council votes on it. This is a time honored form of giving previous notice on a matter. It's how we get a heads up. Its part of that whole government transparency that folks along the entire political spectrum have achieved a consensus on supporting.
Adding an ordinance to a meeting agenda for action the day of the meeting is not how things are supposed to work.
I imagine that this will be passed as an Emergency Ordinance, since that is the only method by which such action is to be taken.
The problem with this ordinance being an emergency is that it was already placed on the August 9, 2011 meeting agenda as an introduction item. This item was considered a non-emergency last week. What happened since then?
The contract is now part of a new agenda item. AB2011-273
I encourage any citizen who is an advocate of transparent process to ask the County Council tonight about AB2011-273 and why it has to be voted on tonight without notice.
I just posted this article on the Starkenburg contract... (Link HERE.)
And in that article I made a point of writing this:
Also, the County Council is not voting on this matter tomorrow. It is being introduced tomorrow, and the Council will not be voting on the matter until the following Council meeting.
Well, what a difference a day makes.
Today, the day of the meeting, the agenda has been modified to move the contract from being an introduction item to an action item.
The Council will be voting on this matter tonight. With no goddam notice.
Here is how things are supposed to work...
An ordinance is introduced at one meeting so that the public can get a chance to look it over before the Council votes on it. This is a time honored form of giving previous notice on a matter. It's how we get a heads up. Its part of that whole government transparency that folks along the entire political spectrum have achieved a consensus on supporting.
Adding an ordinance to a meeting agenda for action the day of the meeting is not how things are supposed to work.
I imagine that this will be passed as an Emergency Ordinance, since that is the only method by which such action is to be taken.
The problem with this ordinance being an emergency is that it was already placed on the August 9, 2011 meeting agenda as an introduction item. This item was considered a non-emergency last week. What happened since then?
The contract is now part of a new agenda item. AB2011-273
I encourage any citizen who is an advocate of transparent process to ask the County Council tonight about AB2011-273 and why it has to be voted on tonight without notice.
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