[Vision2020] Sewer Agreement

[Sam Scripter]

Please see below, in black . . .

Saundra Lund wrote:
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> Visionaries:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> To quote Idaho Attorney General Lance Wasden:
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> "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."
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Do committees of the Idaho State House of Representatives and of the 
Idaho State Senate adhere to the Idaho Open Meeting Law????

MoscowSam
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> Inquiring minds want to understand!
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> TIA,
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> Saundra Lund
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> Moscow, ID
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> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to 
> do nothing.
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> ~ Edmund Burke
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