LPA member Jim Boan was our guest Saturday at Lah De Dah. Jim is one of 3 residents who’ve applied for the open Town Council seat after the resignation of Jim Atterholt. We covered many topics including Seagate, big development, public benefit, and much more.
Watch the interview on Facebook HERE or on YouTube HERE.
Tom Brady will be our guest this Saturday at 10AM. John McLean will be our guest on Saturday, February 14th at 10AM. All of our shows are broadcast live on our Facebook page and YouTube Channel.
The 4 remaining Town Council members will vote on who fills the seat at their February 17th meeting. If a person is appointed at that meeting, whoever it is will take the open seat immediately.
The appointment is until this November when the seat will be on the ballot along with John King’s seat and Rebecca Link’s seat.
Following the community vision in the rebuild should be only one issue in these next appointments and November elections.
Ending the private meetings between individual council members and developers seeking projects should be just as important. Legal yes, but a stain on the principle of absolute government transparency. Residents get three minutes per person at the public meeting podium to make their points. Developers have been getting untold and unreported amounts of time in private chats making their pitches, their deals.
The dates, times, places and participant names of those chats have been excluded from this council’s pious but empty claims of transparency.
Unlike the emails from constituents to council members that become public records, there is no such record of those private chats with special interests.
Each of these candidates for appointment, and candidates and incumbents for seats in November elections, should be made to be as clear on that issue as they should be made to be on the issue of that community vision.