"Illegal March 8 meeting minutes
Mayor and Council;
Our City Clerk uses the same digital recorder that I have, an Olympus model VN- 5200PC. It is an amazing little device and is capable of emailing the entire meeting of March 8 to all of us. We have witnesses that saw her using this recorder on March 8. If she erased the meeting recording before the minutes were approved, it raises an issue for law enforcement.
I am requesting that we all recieve an email of the meeting so we can correct the minutes. One line coming out of a 35 minute meeting does not capture the substance of that meeting.
The minutes as written constitute nothing less than tampering with the public record. I want to be able to tell people I protested illegally closing the meeting...it doesn't reflect my protest in the minutes. The recording will show that I was very much opposed to this illegal move and I have witnesses who saw me argue for their right to a transparent government.
Mayor Roll has great disdain for transparent government as evidenced when he closed a meeting to deny my motion for transparency in our actions with EPA. Coupled with the secret negotiations which changed the unit rate for topsoil, it is looking like Mayor Roll is controlling the entire issue in the backrooms of City Hall.
I want support for my argument that Lincoln County Deputy Attorney Allan Payne is giving the Council bad advice. The minutes as written have hidden the fact that he lied to us and closed a public meeting under false pretense. I want the opportunity to confront Mr. Payne publicly with the recording of his deeds. I want the public to know the important issues we discussed out of their view.
I tried to argue that County influence, especially Tony Bergets' County influence through Allan Payne, would harm our position in cleanup of OU-1. The two County employees on the Council, Mr. Bischoff and Mrs. Benson, stifled my comments with an illegal motion to end debate when we were voting to enter into agreement with Mr. Payne. The debate continues.
This Council seems to think if they can force their agenda through sheer political will and hide their actions from the public, they can make a vote and the arguments die, even if your actions are illegal. EPA has this same philosophy. it is a false belief.
EPA is forcing the City to accept a "cleanup" that allows continuing exposure to a substance of unknown toxicity in perpetuity on OU-1. Commissioner Berget just wants this issue behind him. His County influence in our City dealings is going to cause a train wreck if we don't request that EPA actually protect human health on OU-1.
I want the public record to show that I was the voice of reason and that members of this Council with conflicts of interest forced this illegal meeting to hide their actions from the public.
Mayor Roll, please instruct your Clerk to release the recording of the March 8 illegal meeting.
Sincerely, DC Orr"
To DC Orr From Bill Bischoff
"Councilman Orr:
Your e-mails are becoming more and more annoying. You continually try to prod responses from people by making false accusations and lying even though we’ve been advised by counsel that e-mail streams constitute a meeting. If you were really concerned about illegal meetings, you wouldn’t continually do this.
These issues should be publicly debated in an open meeting. Quit hiding behind your computer and bring them up at a meeting. I’m not sure you can think that quick on your feet to debate things publicly, but we’ll go slow so you can keep up.
Please exclude me from anymore of your false and intentionally misleading e-mails. If you continue to send them to me, I’ll set up my spam blocker to catch them.
Bill"
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