To ALL:

 

This is a response to the information you rec'd yesterday re:

questions/answers from Commissioner Hasenauer to Tom Mason, director of the MPO.

 

It is very informative and deserves discussion and possible action to "streamline' the constitutional process that, as evidenced by last night's city council meeting, was disgustingly dismissed in a frantic push to bring back-door amendments to a vote without ANY review or participation in the process by EITHER the two 'councils of the whole' OR We the People!

 

We can be disgusted or we can be involved individually and collectively; I say let's continue and build a strong team of resistance to the anti-constituent mentality that exists AND WHICH WE HAVE EACH WITNESSED at the planning, city, county and MPO level.

 

What do you think? We were TOLD last night that we could only offer amendments next week (10th) if "sponsored by

a council member, and that it was not OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.  When a constitutional challenge was made

to this, Council chair Dr. Rinne's bold declaration, he

came back with a weak "this is the way it's always been done."

 

That's the mentality we're dealing with.  We are IRRELEVANT.

Our exposure to this mindset at each and every meeting proves just that...we don't matter, their agenda is center stage; ours is simply to conform--and to conform nicely--to Roberts' Rule of Order.

 

Anyway, on to Tim Bieligk's insightful analysis of the power structure of the MPO...Thanks and please, share your thoughts because this is YOUR forum ~~~~~Betty