[Vision2020] Hawkins Mall and Moscow

[Tom Ivie]

I can kind of see the meeting being an executive one not privy to open meeting laws (only because of the pending legal action and the mediation agreement).  However, the city didn't have to accept the terms of the mediation requiring secrecy.  I don't know who agreed to it, but I don't think it was the smart thing to do. Government is supposed to be and should be transparent and agreeing to do otherwise seems unwise. Except for the pending legal action, everything else should have been open for the public to see and comment on. But then, maybe that's what they (whoever agreed to the mediation terms) wanted -for the public to be left in the dark.


Garrett Clevenger <garrettmc at verizon.net> wrote: After working to get the City to come to their senses
regarding the Noise Ordinance and watching the city in
action, my response is I don't trust our City to make
decisions based on what's best for Moscow and its
people.  I'm not surprised that the current Council is
willing to sell out our tax-dollars and water for
development.

Walter Steed had told me he thought the NO should have
time constraints and Dan Carscallen said he thought
the NO should be put in the "shitcan" and rewritten,
yet they both voted for the original, unacceptable
version.

Bill Lambert and John Weber never replied to my
repeated requests to answer my questions and the
wanted to pass the NO on the first reading without
giving the public a chance to input.

Tom Lamar, after originally voting to bring the NO to
the council in the first place, was too "swamped" to
insure that an acceptable version was passed.

Nancy Chaney said she would take public testimony at
the City Council meeting, yet she finally decided
against allowing the public to testify.

Randy Fife twice gave the Council the wrong version of
the Noise Ordinance they were to consider.

My most reasonable meeting was with Chief Dan Weaver
who agreed with my compromise saying it was
reasonable.  Unfortunately, at the Council meeting, he
said he preferred the original version, of course,
because that's like asking a kid if he wants one
cookie or the whole cookie jar.

In the end, it seems everybody just wanted what they
wanted, irregardless of the consequences to everyone
else, no matter how reasonable the request for
compromise is.

The irony is, the Greater Moscow Alliance endorsed
candidates supposedly are for private property rights,
yet they don't care that landlords and homeowners can
now be cited under a potentially unconstitutional NO. 
So their hypocrisy equals their contempt for what is
best for the long-term health of our community.

Good luck holding these folks accountable!

Sincerely,

Garrett Clevenger


[Vision2020] Hawkins Mall and Moscow

roger hayes rhayes at turbonet.com 
Wed Feb 6 07:25:25 PST 2008
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Dear Moscow taxpayers and business owners,

It appears the city of Moscow will provide water,
sewer, and most 
likely police and fire services to the proposed
Hawkins development 
which is slated to be built just across the border in
Washington. Who 
will benefit by this? Hawkins, regional developers and
Whitman county. 
The losers will be Moscow businesses and Moscow
taxpayers.
If this plan comes to fruition, we will be exporting
our tax dollars to 
Whitman county, shipping the profits of local business
to another 
state, while reducing Moscow's tax base, AND
increasing the demand on 
our city's infrastructure. How much money will Hawkins
agree to pay 
Moscow to mitigate the destructive consequences this
megamall will have 
on our city?
With the exception of Tom Lamar, the city council
voted against the 
best interests of our city and its citizens. Walter
Steed said he could 
not comment on the negotiations because they were held
in "secret." Why 
the secrecy? Steed also said "this will not make some
people happy." 
Well, when you make a deal which is destructive to the
people who 
elected you, it is bound to make them unhappy.
We need to consider a RECALL!

Roger Hayes
Moscow!


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