Who is watching the Fire and Rescue Commission?

The new Commission just concluded their first meeting. I, for one, am satisfied with the actions of Mr. Barnes et al. It is time for the citizens, like me, to stand back and give the F&EMS service members the opportunity to adjust and move forward in their very difficult and challenging jobs.

BTW, congrats to Dan on his fine reporting here.

I DVR’d it I will watch tomorrow. 2000 unfiled reports. hmmmm betcha everyone responsible gets sudden miraculous instant recall of those incidents. Hope the insurances companies don’t read blogs or watch the new transparent government. LOL

Will the meeting be re-broadcast (I hope).. I had a conflict.

any chance they will put it on Hulu?

not my local library…

You betcha!! But what about last Sunday’s meeting featuring Doug Barnes as the Committee of 500′s speaker.
The FLS put the invitation smack dab in the middle of their “Letters to the Editor”

Who covered that meeting, what was said and who showed up? There was a question and answer period set aside to take questions from the audience. Anyone ask any hard questions? How about you Larry? Anything you can share with us that the PUBLIC missed out on, who couldn’t make the meeting, or is that something religated to FOCUS GROUPS, who conduct business for the public from behind closed doors?

How much do you think it’s going to cost County tax payers to construct a water/sewer system to the property line of a sports complex, so that development can add on, by right, to every other subdivision tie-in from Rt1, down Rt 17 and past the intersection of Rts 2 and 17. How much do you think it’s going to cost tax payers to contract and construct the roadways and infrastructure to accommodate the traffic
congestion generated by the County’s new train station, high density housing and a sports complex that Supv Skinner claims will generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue, that no one else in the County can attest to or account for, beyond a guess.

Larry, maybe you know where these numbers can be found for public consumption BEFORE the county signed on to THEIR performance agreement with leaders in the sporting arena, without one word to the public for 2 YEARS, to develop the NEW POST property that TRICORD trid to sell to the County years ago and failed, because they were found out years ago by one very angry Board Supervisor who asked just three hard questions and Tricord didn’t have the answers about where the money was going to come from.

Why don’t you let everyone know that NEW POST and SUMMIT CROSSING projects, though rejected by the BOS, have been identified by the County Planning Commission as URBAN DEVELOPMENT AREAS can, by-right, be built out with thousands of high density housing districts and ZONING authorities will NOW tell the PUBLIC they have no say in what is or can be constructed next door to them.

What is it about the Mallard Landing project on Rt 2 that we missed out on. Try having an intelligent conversation with homeowners who’s properties are adjacent to and butt against the Mallard Landing project and the advent of affordable housing in that housing district.

Larry, instead of trying to make fun of my intentions to have more transparency and accountability in government, why don’t you take a closer look at your rhetotic and tell US just how close you think WE are to the truth, and what, if anything, should the public do to become more informed and involved in their government that continues to conduct their business from behind closed doors.

Why don’t you tell us the County’s “FOCUS GROUP”, without minutes, is just a rumor, or a figment of our imagination. Read the record Larry. NO ONE has come out and said the County’s FOCUS GROUP, without minutes, does not exist. I’ve even supplied you with a roster of the members to this group and if anyone cares to question their existence, why don’t you look a little closer at the County’s Planning Commission meeting minutes.

Tell us that members of the public, without special interest, are allowed to attend these meetings. It’s not that I mind being turned down flat on two separate occassions to attend these meetings, but the FLS is also denied admittance and the public doesn’t have a clue, beyond a closed door, what kind of business their government is conducting, in their behalf, with the benefactors and beneficiaries of special interest groups who are allowed access to tax payer’s money WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY to those being governed. Put that into a sewer/drain pipe and see how much it’s going to cost the rest of us.

What Larry, do you have to offer, to say this ain’t so, without contradicting your own previous BLOG conclusions?

We can never have too little information, if WE are going to be called on to make informed decisions. Try making fun of that.