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Saturday, August 29, 2009
I Must Praise the Mehlville Fire Board
The Mehlville Fire Protection District's BOD broke all records and Missouri law by having a public meeting Thursday that lasted approximately one minute. In it, they approved the sale of a firehouse and held a tax rate hearing. Unbelievable!
6 comments:
Anonymous
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I would think the public's question/answer period would have extended the meeting beyond one minute. Pre-posting the meeting agenda must help move the meeting along.
Heins Explain how the law was broken by having a meeting one minute. Was there any public there to ask questions that would make it go longer then one minute. I would like to see the exact language that says how long a meeting should be? Also was this meeting posted by the sunshine requirements? I do not think that this is unbelievable, I think you are making statements that are far from being true.
It's not about the public its about power, Arron is the boss and God help who ever comes between him and his agenda. If the Boe would have tried this they would have been cruicified. Arron makes his own rules and the tax payers have to live with it. No our taxes didnt go down they went up by 3 cents. not alot but still you have to question why if everything was so well managed by this man.
4:27 trying to excuse or legitimize the behavior of these fire board buttheads only makes you sound pathetic.
They have pulled this crap over and over again and the Call, that bastion of yellow journalism, refuses to reveal it to the public because Milligan and Anthony are up to their asses in collusion with Hilmer and Stonebraker.
A few years back, it was temporarily in vogue to line up to address the school board about grievances which did not affect the district as a whole. Most often these complaints were building-specific and involved personal disagreements with staff or some other relatively minor thing which the parent had not even TRIED to resolve on the building level. While these concerns certainly needed to be heard and dealt with, there were far more timely and effective means available than eating up valuable time at the monthly public board meeting griping about sticky floors in a lunchroom.
Some board member (was it you, Heins?) dared to suggest that simply emailing a board member might result in a quicker intervention and resolution to these kinds of problems.
The Call went off like a grenade. How dare the school board ask people to constructively direct their concerns? Censorship! they cried. Stifling public input! they wailed. Lousy communists! they proclaimed. Their hand-wringing, self-righteous editorial protests lasted months.
Contrast THAT to their response when Hilmer announced shortly after taking office that only pre-submitted questions would be read at fire board meetings and THEN only the one or two questions he damn well felt like reading.
Not a word of protest was written about it. Hilmer clamped an iron curtain lid worthy of the KGB on any kind of dissenting question and the Call printed NOTHING about it.
The fire board made no effort to advertise the agenda prior to the meeting because they didn't WANT any questions from the public. They don't LIKE questions unless they come scripted and read by some reptile they planted in the audience...so they can explain, AGAIN, how wonderfully they are running things...into the ground.
3;20 Yes, it was me. They also railed on Walt Bivens for a very long time for making groups appoint one speaker and limiting their time to 5 minutes. The Call didn't say a word when the Lindbergh School Board had minor controls on their speakers and actually supports the tight reins held by the Mehlville Fire Board. But if having double standards was the Call Newspaper's biggest problem, they wouldn't be considered the cancer of the community.
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I would think the public's question/answer period would have extended the meeting beyond one minute. Pre-posting the meeting agenda must help move the meeting along.
who bought the firehouse? and what was the result of the tax hearing?
Heins
Explain how the law was broken by having a meeting one minute. Was there any public there to ask questions that would make it go longer then one minute. I would like to see the exact language that says how long a meeting should be? Also was this meeting posted by the sunshine requirements? I do not think that this is unbelievable, I think you are making statements that are far from being true.
It's not about the public its about power, Arron is the boss and God help who ever comes between him and his agenda. If the Boe would have tried this they would have been cruicified. Arron makes his own rules and the tax payers have to live with it. No our taxes didnt go down they went up by 3 cents. not alot but still you have to question why if everything was so well managed by this man.
4:27 trying to excuse or legitimize the behavior of these fire board buttheads only makes you sound pathetic.
They have pulled this crap over and over again and the Call, that bastion of yellow journalism, refuses to reveal it to the public because Milligan and Anthony are up to their asses in collusion with Hilmer and Stonebraker.
A few years back, it was temporarily in vogue to line up to address the school board about grievances which did not affect the district as a whole.
Most often these complaints were building-specific and involved personal disagreements with staff or some other relatively minor thing which the parent had not even TRIED to resolve on the building level.
While these concerns certainly needed to be heard and dealt with, there were far more timely and effective means available than eating up valuable time at the monthly public board meeting griping about sticky floors in a lunchroom.
Some board member (was it you, Heins?) dared to suggest that simply emailing a board member might result in a quicker intervention and resolution to these kinds of problems.
The Call went off like a grenade. How dare the school board ask people to constructively direct their concerns? Censorship! they cried. Stifling public input! they wailed. Lousy communists! they proclaimed. Their hand-wringing, self-righteous editorial protests lasted months.
Contrast THAT to their response when Hilmer announced shortly after taking office that only pre-submitted questions would be read at fire board meetings and THEN only the one or two questions he damn well felt like reading.
Not a word of protest was written about it. Hilmer clamped an iron curtain lid worthy of the KGB on any kind of dissenting question and the Call printed NOTHING about it.
The fire board made no effort to advertise the agenda prior to the meeting because they didn't WANT any questions from the public. They don't LIKE questions unless they come scripted and read by some reptile they planted in the audience...so they can explain, AGAIN, how wonderfully they are running things...into the ground.
3;20 Yes, it was me. They also railed on Walt Bivens for a very long time for making groups appoint one speaker and limiting their time to 5 minutes. The Call didn't say a word when the Lindbergh School Board had minor controls on their speakers and actually supports the tight reins held by the Mehlville Fire Board. But if having double standards was the Call Newspaper's biggest problem, they wouldn't be considered the cancer of the community.
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