[Vision2020] Sewer Agreement

[lfalen]

Saundra
Perhaps some of the Mediators that are on vision2020 could respond, but it is my understanding that most mediation is confidential. I believe public business should be public. Because mediation is usually confidential, the problem is in agreeing to mediation in the first place.
Roger

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From: "Saundra Lund" sslund_2007 at verizon.net
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:38:22 -0800
To: "'Sam Scripter'" moscowsam at verizon.net
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Sewer Agreement

> Hi MoscowSam and Other Interested Visionaries,
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> Thanks for the response!  I think your question is a good one I don't know
> the answer to - perhaps Roger Falen (I've cc'ed him my response) might have
> some comments?  I seem to recall that he's got a keen interest in and
> understanding of ID Open Meeting Law.
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> Awhile back (2005), I attended a local workshop sponsored by the AG's office
> regarding open meeting and public records laws, which I found very
> informative!  And, this is why the whole stinkin' (pun intended) sewer
> agreement folded into the water negotiation puzzles and troubles me.  Of
> course, I'm not a legal eagle or attorney . . . 
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> Regardless, it seems to me that if we, as local citizens, can't ensure that
> Open Meeting law is followed on a local level, it's a dicey proposition to
> think that it will be respected and followed on a state level.  Which is why
> I asked the question regarding the secret negotiations regarding the secret
> sewer negotiations and agreement regarding the Hawkins development in
> Washington state.
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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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> From: Sam Scripter [mailto:moscowsam at verizon.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:52 PM
> To: Saundra Lund
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Sewer Agreement
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> Please see below, in black . . .
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> 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????
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> 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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> 70 years, Saundra Lund.  Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside
> the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the
> author.*****
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