Posted on 02/15/2012 6:52:58 AM PST by Texas Eagle
Yuba City, CA. – With a standing ovation, the crowd at Tuesday night’s, Jan. 31, Sutter County Board of Supervisors meeting praised the board’s action in which it unanimously rejected a resolution to apply for a state grant to update the county’s zoning ordinance. Lisa Wilson, the county Planning Division Manager, had asked the Board to approve submitting a grant application to the Sustainable Communities Planning Grant and Incentive Program for Local Sustainable Planning funds to update the zoning ordinances to comply with the recently adopted General Plan.
I work at the local level every day.
I see what goes on. Everyone want their ‘agenda’ to be pork barelled.
...and that's why we're rushing to our demise.
Rosa Koire blasts the MTC/ABAG group for trying to secretly meet with private citizens who dissented during the last go round of One Bay Area meetings.
Now that the public is catching on and compelling increasing numbers of elected representatives to represent their constituents by refusing to take the bait and avoid entering into the socialists' trap, the Agenda 21 soldiers are trying something new.
I'll just add that my final response to these scumbags was this: (but read her article to get the whole story)
Ms. Bullock,
I still don’t know what this meeting is about and how it would benefit me to attend. An informal meeting, with unelected officials and no agenda, to discuss “issues, matters and dissent” doesn’t warrant my time. The “issues and matters” I care about are the same as those expressed by hundreds of others who attended the winter workshops.
As a member of the public and a tax payer I expected the “open dialogue” you are now requesting and a robust conversation to have occurred at the open meetings held in January. Sadly that did not occur. To now ask for an informal, private meeting with a handful of private citizens and no agenda is puzzling. Hundreds of people dissented at these meetings. Hundreds of tax payers showed up to ask questions and got NO answers!! The questions were all written down and to this date NONE of them have been answered.
The public was promised that their questions and the answers to those questions would be posted on the MTC website, but to date there is no evidence that this has happened. May I suggest that MTC/ABAG staffers spend their time answering the “issues and matters” that were raised by ALL the taxpayers at the winter workshop meetings and post them on the website rather than waste more tax payer money holding private meetings with me.
When MTC and ABAG decide to hold real town hall forums with the public the process will be meaningful. Hiring paid meeting facilitators is a waste of tax payer money and clearly does not adequately provide a forum for the public to participate. The phony virtual workshop is a sham meant only to boost your public input numbers. Without identifying who or where these online votes are coming from they are meaningless. And with predetermined choices the online workshop is merely a rigged video game. I suggest you post the questions and answers from the public forums to your website now.
I didn't take it that way at all.
I was aware of the Live Oak City Council decision to enter the snare and it bummed me out, too.
I don't know how two cities that are so close together (and two counties for that matter) can be governed by such different-minded people but that's the way it is.
Actually, I do have an idea as to why the difference exists but that would take this thread down a rabbit hole that would be unproductive.
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