2003-02-08 Special Called Meeting

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2-24-03 Council-Jo~ ans. to # of cattle. On 10-10-02 the assistant city manager sent me and each council member a letter in response~to my 10-7-02 meeting with him: He presented that letter as an answer to my. written question: He attached a series of my E-mails to that letter . that made it look like he answered my question. Fact is; he left the most~important E-mail out of the attachment. That missing 5-21-02 E-mail to the city planning director, nailed. the .question down ~to only two possible answers... and your.plarining director never responded to. the question. In that 10-7-02 meeting. with`your assistant city manager, ~I repeatedly eicplained to him the only two possible answers~to my question and gave him a copy of the 5=21-02 E-mail that specifically stated- the only. two possible answers..And with all that instruction and allthat explanation, as you see in his response, he still did not answer the question.. " ." ~ . So I'll repeat the question as a 1435 question to .this Council. Did the. Board of Adjustment. address limiting the. number of animals at the feed lot? There are ohly two possible answers. 'I : Yes, they did address limiting the number of animals; or 2. No,.they did not, address:timiting the number of animals. " And now, I have the obvious additional 1435 questions to-this council: 1. Why did your assistant city_manager leave the most important E-mail out of his .letter attachment. 2. Why did your assistant city manager not~answer my question. 3. .Why did your assistant city manager repeatedly try to claim, in"our meeting, that City staff made a recommendation~to the BOA to limit the"# of feed lot animals, when in fact: City staff:made no such recommendation. When I repeatedly countered this bluff, :your. assistant city manager city claimed that he was going to look it up in the BOA information,. implying that he"was going to prove to me, he was right ~ab~out this. Well, he has never gotten back to me on his findings, so question 4 is: ~ - . 4. What were his findings? ~ : ~ ~ . Gentlemen, I think I've been very patient. For over 2 years your City staff has avoided giving me a simple .answer to a. simple question. I'm a taxpayer and I . ~.have~a right to a straight answer on this question. and~the additional questions? For those that are riot•aware of 'if; for some time now this has not been just about a feedlot of. unlimited animals; it~has been about local. government~ethics and so these 1435 questions als"o: go'to the Council members up for re-election. . I have a lot more to say to this. council about Mr: Joems involvement in the feed .lot of unlimited cattle, but I pelieve State Iaw~gives.him the opfion of having that evidence produced ~in executive~~session. So my 5th question to this council is; what are the formalities of".niaking;that executive session happen. Bill- Scott ~ .