[Vision2020] Sewer Agreement

[Tom Hansen]

It is pretty much understood that mediation between private individuals is 
confidential.  It should be.

Should this same confidentiality be maintained for mediation between a 
private company and elected city officials?  It is muy opinion that 
mediation involving elected public officials should be recorded and made 
available to the constituency of those elected officials.

Another thing:  Sweeping this agreement, and the procedure that created 
the agreement, under the "Executive Session" umbrella merely because of a 
perceived "competition" between the two communities of Moscow and Pullman 
amounts to nothing more than another skeleton in the city council's 
closet.  Permitting this type of chicanery opens the flood gates of 
secrecy every time an elected official can draw a link between our two 
city halls, candy-coating it with the all too popular explanation that it 
was for the good of Moscow.

BULL!

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> 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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