An Editorial...Secret Grove City Council Meetings
There are two ways the Grove City Council can hold secret meetings.
--Get together over a cup of coffee at McDonald's, which is strictly illegal.
--Post a single sheet of paper on the side door of the community center 48 hours prior to the meeting with a legal agenda, and tell no one. This method is quite legal, but certainly not very informative.
Therefore, if one does not go by the community center every day, get out of the car and walk up to the $12,000 doors in the shadows and squint at the piece of paper, one could miss the most important Council meeting of the year.
And so it was Friday, June 16. The agenda was posted Wednesday morning on the doors, regarding a special meeting Friday to discuss the qualifications, procedure and advertisement for the next city manager's position. The meeting started at 9 a.m. and lasted approximately one hour and a half. There were no reporters there from any news media. The General Manager of the Grove Sun Daily happened to be driving by the community center and noticed cars belonging to councilors and dropped in on the last 15 minutes of the meeting.
We failed, we did not drive by the Community Center on Thursday.
But so did certain councilors and city hall officials.
And so we have the very first Council meeting to discuss the most important agenda item for Grove's future, and no news reporters there and very few people in any case. Of course, there were a few there from the anti-Galletly forces who always seem to know where the meetings are.
The Grove Observer gets "tips" all the time; we get calls from Councilors asking what we know that they don't know.
This time, the phone was silent.
A sorry way to start off the search that was supposed to involve the citizens of Grove.
--Get together over a cup of coffee at McDonald's, which is strictly illegal.
--Post a single sheet of paper on the side door of the community center 48 hours prior to the meeting with a legal agenda, and tell no one. This method is quite legal, but certainly not very informative.
Therefore, if one does not go by the community center every day, get out of the car and walk up to the $12,000 doors in the shadows and squint at the piece of paper, one could miss the most important Council meeting of the year.
And so it was Friday, June 16. The agenda was posted Wednesday morning on the doors, regarding a special meeting Friday to discuss the qualifications, procedure and advertisement for the next city manager's position. The meeting started at 9 a.m. and lasted approximately one hour and a half. There were no reporters there from any news media. The General Manager of the Grove Sun Daily happened to be driving by the community center and noticed cars belonging to councilors and dropped in on the last 15 minutes of the meeting.
We failed, we did not drive by the Community Center on Thursday.
But so did certain councilors and city hall officials.
And so we have the very first Council meeting to discuss the most important agenda item for Grove's future, and no news reporters there and very few people in any case. Of course, there were a few there from the anti-Galletly forces who always seem to know where the meetings are.
The Grove Observer gets "tips" all the time; we get calls from Councilors asking what we know that they don't know.
This time, the phone was silent.
A sorry way to start off the search that was supposed to involve the citizens of Grove.
posted by Editor | 3:02 AM
1 Comments:
Sorry indeed. Gee I wonder why the Anti-Galletley people, and the Anti-Nuckolls/Helms/Ryan (The Three-Headed Monster)group don't trust this city council. People need to wake up and realize that this is not about trying to "keep the old way the old way". It's about getting rid of three people (it would be four, but he is already on his way out), who are only worried about getting payback, for the wrongs that they believe have been done to them, ie Helms, Nuckolls (Ryan is just their puppet, who can't think for himself). We need people in the city government who are worried about this city and it's growth, not their own selfish goals of retribution. They (The Three-Headed Monster) think other people are "crooked", but they need to take a look in the mirror.
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