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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Please see below, in black . . .</font><br>
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Saundra Lund wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Visionaries:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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 <b>that issue</b>.
Apparently, the City agreed to confidentiality in negotiations as part
of that
deal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">To quote
Idaho Attorney General
Lance Wasden:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Do committees of the Idaho State House of
Representatives and of the Idaho State Senate adhere to the Idaho Open
Meeting Law????<br>
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MoscowSam<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Inquiring
minds want to
understand!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">TIA,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Saundra
Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The only
thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">~ Edmund
Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">*****
Original material
contained herein is Copyright 2008 through life plus 70 years, Saundra
Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision
2020
forum without the express written permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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