Only Friends Invited.....

-------- Your tax dollars at work ---------

DID CHARLIE AND NORM REALLY WANT .... TO BAN THE PUBLIC?!?

Heck, the motion couldn't even say the words..... "CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC".....
Rather... Charlie euphemistically says that SWSDA meetings should "... be held as in the past..." (;-)

And, to make sure there was no confusion.... but again avoiding the ugly phrase "Closed to the Public" ..... the minutes clarify the motion by indicating that meetings of SWSDA will "... 1.e., not be open to the public." LOL

Wow.... reminds of newspaper headlines when I first arrived in South Africa in 1973 screaming "FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY ACT EXPANDED" ....when it really meant the Act had been amended to make it possible for the much feared Bureau of State Security (BOSS) to arrest anyone involved in an assembly of 2 or more people! Now those folks knew how to keep populations subservient and in line!

NOW HOLD ON YOU SAY.... the SWSDA Board could not have meant ALL OF THE PUBLIC.... That would mean only Board members would be allowed to attend meetings.... not alternates and certainly none of that crew SWSDA calls the "Non-voting Members" who regularly attend and consist mostly of people who add legitimacy to SWSDA proceedings and who participate by simply being there..... Remember, the bylaws DO NOT provide for alternates or non voting members.... just members of SWSDA and the Board of Directors.

So dear SWSDA.... I assume that you will ask all those folks sitting outside the SWSDA inner circle who are part of the great unwashed public there to attend your next "closed to the Public" meeting (read "non-voting members") to leave before you start next week's private meeting.... right!?!

Gee..... makes you wish we had municipal elections again just around the corner.... wonder how many of this crew would survive that round!!??