[Vision2020] Sewer Agreement

[Saundra Lund]

Visionaries:

 

As I continue to try to understand the Council's decision, I've come across
something else that puzzles me, and I'm hoping someone here can help me to
understand.

 

My understanding is that the City of Moscow had appealed the transfer to
Hawkins of  three water rights, and the mediation was an attempt to resolve
that issue.  Apparently, the City agreed to confidentiality in negotiations
as part of that deal.

 

However, why was the sewer (in more ways than one!) part of agreement
secretly negotiated and what's the legal authority behind removing that part
of public business from public scrutiny and public input?

 

To quote Idaho Attorney General Lance Wasden:

"Open and honest government is fundamental to a free society. The Idaho
Legislature formalized our state's commitment to open government by enacting
the Idaho Open Meeting Law in 1974. The Open Meeting Law codifies a simple,
but fundamental, Idaho value: The public's business ought to be done in
public."

 

Inquiring minds want to understand!

 

 

TIA,

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

 

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