[Mpls] As the Park Board Turns...

[Brad Hartmann]

I tuned in to Channel 14 to watch the proceedings. Unfortunately, the
live broadcast went off the air at 8:00 pm just as the discussion of
this incident was to commence.

On 6/16/05, Dann Dobson <dddobson1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I was detained elsewhere yesterday and could not attend yesterday's Park Board meeting, but I am eagerly awaiting to hear what occured in the Gurbin - Stone matter, particularly in light of Chris Johnson's post.
> 
> What did the Park Board do about Mr. Gurbin's actions, if anything?
> 
> Were some people prevented from speaking, who signed up "Late"?
> 
> 
> I await with baited breath.
> 
> Dann Dobson
> Saint Paul
> 
> Chris Johnson <issues at chaska.org> wrote:
> I've been told that a number of people from Nicollet Island who thought they
> had signed up for "Open Time" at tonight's Park Board meeting have learned
> that the Park Board does not have them on the list to speak, as their sign ups
> were considered to be "not timely."
> 
> This is peculiar, because existing policy is that one must sign up by 4:00pm
> on the Wednesday of the meeting. Since 4:00pm has not yet arrived (as of the
> time of writing -- this was actually posted later), it seems, well, completely
> impossible to call those sign ups not timely.
> 
> Oh no, one might exclaim! Sign up must be done by Monday before, maybe even
> by Noon!
> 
> I was wrong on that point in my earlier post, just as anyone now believing
> that, including staff and commissioners at the Park Board, are wrong.
> 
> I just researched the issue. Lo and behold, the board never officially
> changed the sign up time, although there was plenty of discussion and a motion
> passed out of committee on it.
> 
> On February 16, a motion (3.3) before the board to move sign up for Open Time
> to Monday actually FAILED to pass. This motion was passed out of committee at
> the February 2 meeting.
> 
> I just checked the official minutes on the Park Board web site for the Feb. 16
> meeting and they agree with own report: the official change to the prior
> Monday from the existing policy of Wednesday of the meeting sign up for open
> time FAILED to pass. The former policy was to sign up by 4pm on the day of
> the meeting.
> 
> In other words, the sign up time never changed officially!
> 
> The policy for signing up to speak at Public Open Time should still be 4:00pm
> on Wednesdays prior to the meeting.
> 
> It looks like someone decided that the time was going to change regardless of
> the commissioners explicit vote against changing it. Inquiring minds want to
> know who made the decision and who wrongly implemented it.
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Johnson
> Fulton
> 
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