Observer begins new agenda
service
Columbia County, FL (posted
Dec 1,
2009)
Because
good government is everybody's business, the Columbia
County Observer is pleased to announce its new agenda
service.
As Lake City has moved forward with new management,
new ideas and "yes" they do make mistakes, and their now
famous
Sunshine Girls, Columbia County seems to be digging
in, clinging to old ideas, old ways, and the good old
boy cronyism and corruption that has made Columbia
County a legend in Florida and beyond, while at the same
time stifling and threatening county employees that
really want to do a good job serving the public.
Now, always to be found on the top right on the home
page, in boxes with a green outline, will be meeting
dates and links to the agendas of the meetings that will
be of interest to you. Agenda updates will generally be
posted by the next morning, as they are made available.
The Columbia County Commission will continue to be
extensively followed and "red flagged" items in the
agendas will usually have comments explaining the flags.
The idea is that the flags will become unnecessary as
the County Commission grasps the concept that they are
public servants, here to serve the public, and not the
other way around.
The County's heightened "Hail Mary" way of adding
agenda items to meetings, without notice, has now
journeyed beyond the pale and will be extensively
covered. While problematic in the past, the election of
Jack Berry protégé, Jody DuPree, has kicked off a new
era in this surreptitious process, which he began with
the "Florida Crown Affair," and has become more like a
plague.
It has been said that "Transparency is the currency
of Democracy." The Observer hopes you find the agenda
update service valuable and enhances your role as a
citizen. Stew Lilker - pub/ed
