Noted about a week back, in fact it was last Tuesday when I went out to get paper that it was like when I was living back on the West Coast. It was like a Fall Morning with the coolness and the hint of Fog. Only thing missing was a Deer as it browsed in the early morning. Now is said we will be having similar cold temperatures for a couple of day. Could we be on the way to what is called an "Early Fall"? Dry and warm, or cold and wet?
The Agenda for the Council Meeting for the 23rd should fall out today too. It should be full of interesting items:
The PD Fee change in whatever form?
The results of the Deer Hunt Meeting of the 22d?
The separate after Council Meeting, meeting notice to show the new idea for a Boat Dock? This could certainly be entertained, but why so far in advance of the actual Certificate by DEP to allow for designated usage of site?
It would seem that the above could easily be done in the Public Forum part OR as a New Business discussion with the exception of being open in both to Public questions?
Should the regular meeting go long, many people would be tired and want to leave. The proposed Live Feed is also a possible Precedent problem? If for one, why not everyone?
People could ask for time on the local TV program as some kind of Public Service Announcement (PSA), OR Heaven forbid, spend a bit of their money to propose the idea in an ad?
Will we have a meeting like the 9th, where everyone was well behaved or the more raucous ones of the previous weeks?
Will anyone have checked on the possibility of Mussel Beds off that shore and their effects on a Dock?
No matter how handled, it would seem this is a project way, way in advance of the City Residents being involved with their ideas or needs? I keep coming back in my mind on why we are doing this, and it is not because it is the right time for it?
Seems a lot of items in play so will be interesting what the City puts on its Agenda?
Am going to point out the obvious on the issue of Accountability/ Responsibility by the WVSC. Simply put, there appears to be none. They were footloose and fancy free to do as they pleased with State Tax Dollars and did so with gusto.
One Delegate from our District who is basically stupid stated that he had voted against the Impeachment because everything the Justices did was Legal. And in that interpretation, it may well have been? But than we got into those three (3), words that I have tried to live by my entire Federal Working Career and even after that into the Private World we call here Vienna. And apparently, the Delegate does not even know they exist? That may explain why he is so clueless on how to conduct himself while pandering to every special group with promises of "I will....", (fill in the blank) to get their Votes.
Those words are of course: Integrity, Morals and Ethics. Seldom will they be listed as Criminal or Misdemeanor Offenses if not followed? But as I have believed and heard many, many times, when one is an Elected or Appointed Government Employee at any level, they are held to a much higher standard. When a thug and that is what any Employee at any level be they Elected or Appointed is if one fails to do their duty when accounting for the Tax Dollars entrusted to them be it a Shovel, Typewriter, Vehicle or a Fund consisting of Tax Dollars is in Deed if not in fact per a Law. Abuse of position, power and authority is what led to the huge abuses by those five (5) Justices when they used Millions of Dollars as they felt they had a God Given Right to do. Some Laws have been determined to have been broken; many dollars have been lost through arrogance which is not a crime against Man, but could be looked askance at by God?
This is the same type of issues here in Wood County Circuit Court when a Judge chooses to support a Law/ Ordinance that has been rewritten by Vienna to pursue its own means to an end. You have arrogance of position, power and authority. I clearly noted to the good Judge Beane in July that the Bench does NOT have the authority to legislate from the Bench anymore than the Legislature can go out in the street to start trying whomever for whatever? The above impeachments going on right now being an exception. Time will of course out the Truth on that statement in this Court?
In the past couple of weeks, I have heard/ read on two (2), Cable Channels and read on at least one Internet Site comments on these impeachments. And be assured not a word of it was in any way, shape or form complimentary not just too the Judges, but the people here as a whole.
It is astounding that so few are angered at how they, one and all have again been shamed by ending up on the top or bottom of some issue. On the top, by being the worst or on the bottom by being the worst. Where the Hell is your pride neighbors?
Election after Election, for decades almost without exception, the Voters have returned one sorry Politician after another in ALL three branches back into office at whatever level. Vienna is showing that it is no different. As the waste of money has blossomed out all over in both the City and the VUB, everyone is pretty much okay with the losses of their dollars? 'nuff said'.