Hartz was right about that. On two other points that were raised and then i will wrap up. The statement that the 150word statements or summaries as the ordinance provides, are not generated or validated by the city commission, that whose minutes they are part of, does seem to me to be a useful notification to the public. To understand the difference between minutes that were generated by the official recording secretary, or responsible employee, and approved as you know the report of the meeting or the Business Decisions that were made. As distinguished from statements prepared by the public. As long as that is done consistently with regard to every statement that comes before them, i dont think that that is an effort to be demissive. I think that it is truly saying that these are Something Different from the minutes that we wrote. Their statements were written by someone else. All of that said, i think that these comments were very revealing about the statement of frustration that has
Make a written statement that he or she wanted in the record. So, that i think Going Forward, certainly from my point of view, if the library were to retreat from this policy of putting the exact verbatim, 150, or whatever the number nottoexceed but the speakers written statement that is handed in, putting it in where the speaker appeared in the minutes, put it in, i think that as they go to some other policy, they clearly are willfully violating at least as i read the sunshine ordinance. But i dont find that their conduct in the past in view of the City Attorneys opinion constituted willfulness conduct. Commissioner liu . I concur with both commissioner studley and commissioner renne on the conclusion. I also did appreciate mr. Chaveys Historical Perspective on this issue. Because you know, i have only been on the commission for two years. And i did appreciate knowing what the history of it was. But, at the same time, i think that it also highlights that the ordinance itself is a litt
150word statement verbatim to be included in the bod y of the minutes. Yekt if they do that, havent they complied with the requirement that the written statement be included in the body of the minutes . But they have not done that. If they do. It is a hypothetical question. I know that your complaint is that they did not do it for everybody. What mr. Renne is saying, that if they included everyones 150word summary in the body of the minutes, would that in your mind, remedy the issue . Going forward, yes. But it does not answer the fact that they spent the last two years avaiding it, avaiding it, and i dont think that the law is intended to be something where they go along for two years, and only when mr. Herrera has the chance of being found in willful violation, does he actually even show up at the hearings. He sends miss blackman to the hearings to represent him and that is the lowest and the biggest exhibit of lack of integrity, sending a subordinate to answer for your behavior. Com
Just a 1 or 2 line summary in the minutes, which may be an inaccurate summary and the public may never go to that addendum and never really get the thrust of it, so it strikes me that what the library is now proposing to do is what i would recommend that every public body ought to do is put in verbatim, the written brief summary and interestingly enough when you look at the statute, the statute says, that minutes shall include a brief summary of Public Comment in the next almost the next sentence says, the speaker may submit a brief summary not exceeding 150 words. As i read it says, instead of the secretary summarizing what was being said, that put in the exact wording that the speaker took the time and effort to make a written statement that he or she wanted in the record. So, that i think Going Forward, certainly from my point of view, if the library were to retreat from this policy of putting the exact verbatim, 150, or whatever the number nottoexceed but the speakers written state
This is part of my hypothesis and/or theory about the Cosmology of Consciousness, Miracles, and New Co-Created Possibilities. Like a musical note seeking union with the harmony of itself, the soul returns to human form, to earth, in order to heal and integrate into a more perfect remembrance of the Divinity of love it already is.