Staggers Open Meetings complaint, Part II
l3wis This is the letter from the State’s Attorney’s office.
While it is a bit technical, it is informative on some levels. Read it a couple of times . . . Gawd knows I had to.
Ethics
Gee I wonder why?
Interesting;
The city’s Board of Ethics has postponed its meeting scheduled for today at 3:30 p.m. in the first floor Commission Room at City Hall. The new date hasn’t been determined.
I wonder if it has anything to do with Kermit requesting a written apology from the board? The city attorney told Kermit he wouldn’t get it until after January 1st because of the ‘holidays’. I guess the easiest way to avoid the letter is to postpone a meeting in which it would certainly be a topic.
Open meetings commission advises reprimand of SF Ethics Board
This of course after the City Attorney advised the same in his testimony today in front of the commission. The city of course blamed Shawn Tornow for bad counsel to the Board and claimed the Board acted in good faith from his counsel. Of course it’s easy to blame a former city employee who is ‘no longer employed by the city’.
Staggers wanted individual reprimands of each board member AND the dates of the private meetings. He got neither request.
UPDATE:
Here is a detailed PDF of Kermit’s testimony and city correspondence;
SF Board of Ethics under fire, next Thursday
I will be in attendance. I can’t wait to see the Mexican hat dance performed by the city.
Vernon Brown to the rescue of Staggers?
Is Vernon defending Kermit over the bogus ethics investigation because he feels Kermit was wronged? Or is afraid it may be his hide next? Makes you wonder if the ethics committee was trying to dig up dirt on Vernon to?
Staggers is concerned that the investigation went beyond the scope of the original complaint. Something that also concerns city councilman Vernon Brown.
“Probably, the most disturbing part for us is the complaint was filed but the investigation went beyond what the complaint was,” Brown said.
And let’s hear the bullshit response . . .
Mike McKnight, the chair of the Board of Ethics, says local laws give them the ability to go where the evidence takes them, and if any changes were made to that part of the law, it would limit their work.
LMAO! You mean the same ‘unconstitutional’ laws that tell people when they are in violation of city code? A city can’t just make up laws that are in violation of the US Constitution and the State Constitution and then use those bogus laws to assert power. Kermit nails it with this comment;
“In making it public then they’re going to be held accountable. When you have a situation where things are done in secret, accountability goes by the wayside,” Staggers said.