During the Planning Commission Meeting tonight, a staffer was explaining to the commission what the process is for council approval and she says, “1st Reading will be October 16 and the 2nd reading and PUBLIC HEARING will be . . .”
The 1st reading is also a public hearing where the public can speak up to 3 minutes. This was the compromise the council made when they shoved general public input to the back of the meeting. You can speak on 1st readings and I encourage it.
So essentially this staffer admits they don’t tell people about the 1st reading being a PUBLIC HEARING.
I think it will take the city council to pass an ordinance to get these folks to KNOCK IT OFF! You need to tell constituents that they can speak at the 1st reading and STOP with your closed government BULLSH!T!
It is obvious that there is a directive from the top permitting planning staff to mislead the public, and I am not talking about the Planning Director.
Last night at the meeting during public input I addressed the transparency issue with the council (FF: 2:55:00)