[Vision2020] Moscow City Council Ignores Due Process

[J Ford]

Mr. Dickison stated he was not allowed to present "evidence" to the Board of 
Adjustment - he's right about part of that sentence - he was not allowed to 
present what would have been "character assignation" as evidence to the BOA. 
  He was told several times to not bring up the gent's reasons (legally, you 
can not "speculate" about a person's motives unless you have evidence in 
fact - which Mr. Dickison did not have) for the complaint against NSA, but 
tried to anyway.  He was given plenty of chance to argue his case by fact - 
and in truth, did, to the tune of nine pages.  The other was and is 
irrelevant.

Secondly, at last night's Council Meeting Mr. Dickison was given plenty of 
opportunity to present what "evidence" he had but refused to, claiming he 
did not get the information the complainants had until the last BOA meeting 
- over three weeks ago, he was given this information and he can't get his 
act together in enough time to present to a Council Meeting he knew was last 
night?  He asked for the information at that meeting and was handed a copy 
of everything they had, that night.  He claims later he was told that was 
all he would be getting, but even that was a lie.  He is just as capable and 
should have gotten off his duff, made a phone call to the complaint's 
attorney, or failing that,  go to City Hall and ask for the ordences and 
copies of anything the Council Members were given.  He chose to do neither.

Mr. Dickison was at the podium for over ten minutes last night and he did 
nothing more productive with his time but whine...must rub off or something 
as Doug was sitting right behind him.  Anyway, Mr. Dickison spent two of 
those minutes telling the audience and council members how he'd "discovered" 
the likeness of his name to John Dickinson.  Yeah, that was prudent use of 
time.

What Mr. Fife told the Council Members was that by LAW, they could not 
accept any new information - they could only consider what was in their 
packet of what the BOA had been able to review and decide on.  That packet 
included any and all information that NSA/Mr. Dickison chose to give to the 
BOA at the time of the BOA hearings (yeah, there was more than one on this 
issue.)  Mr. Dickison's lack of preparedness is not the problem of the 
Council or the complainents nor should it be.  If he can't get his act 
together in time, that is his issue and possibly a point for his "clients" 
to consider - do you really want a person working for you that can't seem to 
get his research done in time for a very publicly time-published meeting?

This type of thing is akin to a jury being given a case for deliberation but 
then the defendants saying "hey wait, I didn't get a chance to give you this 
information."  Sorry, that's not how things work.

I refuse to address Mr. A's obvious lack of understanding of the process of 
the complaint system save to say - read the code, go to the meetings, listen 
and stand up during the public speaking portions - if you really feel like 
people are not being heard, do something positive and get involved.  Whining 
about it later makes no sense and no change.

Doing your own thinking and not parroting what others tell you is a wise way 
to go through life.


J  ;)

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