Who Knew When They Knew, that is the Question!
The readers and citizens should note that the threatening Letters below were written at a time Council Member Miller was prior his election to the City Council (Nov., 2004). (His Name is not on the letterhead). We can wonder just how much is disclosed to new Council Members upon their taking their seats. Do they do a full historical audit of the past, and pending actions of the City Management. If they did attempt this level of discovery, would their investigations be welcome?
During Council Meetings, Mr. Hilkey and Mr. Miller have stated a bit of dissatisfaction with the dissemination of information from the Staff and City Management. So one can wonder how much back ground material is provided to the new council members as they come in.
Full and total access to documents, all documents and records is only the first step needed to discover the truth of the Relationship between the City Management, City Council, Developers and other's who deal with the CRA AND City. The absolute end of closed meetings for land and contract negotiations is required. The interpretation that May hold closed meetings can and in GT should be interpreted as YOU DON'T HAVE TO CLOSE THE MEETING, thus it is an OPEN MEETING. Read the Brown act you will see the WORD "MAY", not the WORD "MUST".
To whose convince and advantage is the word being interpreted as necessitating closed meetings? The Citizens don't benefit.
