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<DIV>Thank you Saundra for attending the city council meeting last night and
sharing your impressions with Vision 2020. Your report, coupled with
the Daily News article, raises some red flags for me. I don't know if you
can answer my questions, but perhaps a city council member will do so, or any
other Moscow resident with some institutional memory regarding city council
history and procedures.</DIV>
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<DIV>1. Is it the case that last night the city council
members, with two exceptions, actually voted to pay what appears to be operating
expenses for the Chamber of Commerce? How can that be? And, if that
is so, what is to prevent other *beneficial* organizations, with a history of
discriminatory hiring practices and a questionable financial future, from
lining up at the public trough in a similar manner? Surely, those
organizations should have their financial expectations met as well. After all, a
precedence has been established. How long has the City Council engaged
in such usual financial support? Surely the dues the City of Moscow
pays to the Chamber are intended to cover these routine kinds of
expenses. I must have misunderstand what you and Ms.
Bacharach have written. Help me out here, Saundra.</DIV>
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<DIV>2. The article and your email suggest that in the
press of business the Chamber has been unable to develop a written
non-discrimination and equal opportunity hiring policy. Since thousands of
examples of these polices are available on the web, or simple phone calls
to the University of Idaho, Washington State University, or Moscow School
District would instantly produced carefully crafted statements, readily
available for discussion and voting on by Chamber members (in short, it would
take less than 3 minutes to ask for, receive and email this material to chamber
members) what possibly could have prevented this from happening? (It is my
conclusion that this was not a priority or that Chamber leadership reject such
policies and so have simply avoided this task. If I am correct in my
assumption, why in the world did five of the seven Council
members vote to reward this behavior? Do they also share this
perspective?) Isn't there a City Council election
this year? I think this response - which certainly can be construed
as enabling behavior - would be firmly imprinted in my mind if I
were able to vote in a city election. I must have
misunderstand what you and Ms. Bacharach have written. Help me
out here, Saundra
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<DIV>3. And finally, did you indicate that the on-line information packet
failed to include any materials related to this request? Was this matter,
which appeared to be unresolved on the committee level somehow elevated to
an agenda item for the whole Council to consider? Somehow this suggests
some monkey business - especially when coupled with a lack of public information
available in the packet. Who arranges the agenda, and who forwarded the
matter to the whole Council for a vote? I must have misunderstand
what you and Ms. Bacharach have written. Help me out here, Saundra
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Rose</DIV></DIV>
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