By releasing public notices on Fridays, the City Manager, City Clerk and Publisher of the Eagle Times all know that notice of the meeting won’t be published and on the streets until after the meeting has occurred! This writer has brought this to the attention of the City Council, City Manager , City Attorney and City Clerk and was a topic of my presentation and public comments to the Council last January.  They have been put on notice previously that this method of posting public meetings obfiscates the public’s knowledge prior to the event.

http://www.saveib.com/saveib/?q=node/963 They continue to do this !The City Clerk gets off the hook because she gave it for publication and paid them to print it. She knows it won’t get printed in the Sun or Eagle Times until after the meeting! The Union Tribune will post a small notice and that’s it!  All the public notice City Council and City Staff want you to have. Meetings move faster and smoother without public input or opposition present!

Don’t think they don’t schedule these sneaky workshops at 9:00 am on a workday for no reason? They know that most people who have a job cannot posibly attend or participate in meetings held at this time on a week day. They know that…..and they schedule by it !

These are not innocent mistakes which cause the public not to be informed of government action and public meetings in a timely manner.  This is a conspiracy of all the aforementioned parties to keep the public in the dark while skirting the letter of the law.

Once again I call the City Manager’s attention to the schedule of publication and request that either the Eagle and Times change their publication schedule, the clerk modify the time of posting of public meetings, so that the spirit of the Brown Act will also be respected by giving the public propper advance notice of public meetings. While the current method of posting public meetings is obviously not working in the spirit of the Brown Act, it might be following the letter of the law just enough that they can continue to get away with it.

I urge Mayor Janney, Councilwoman Bragg or Councilperson King to raise this issue and question whether or not the Eagle & Times should be the adjudicated newspaper or not? No further City money should be spent on advertising in the Eagle & Times unless it can be published in a timely manner (prior to public hearings being posted therein).

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ADJOURNMENT

nd Floor, 950 Ocean Lane, Imperial Beach,

Copies of this notice were provided on 01-09-09 to the San Diego Union-Tribune, I.B. Eagle & Times, I.B. Sun.

AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA)

CITY OF IMPERIAL BEACH)

I, Jacqueline M. Hald, City Clerk of the City of Imperial Beach, hereby certify that the Agenda for the

Workshop Meeting as called by the City Council, Redevelopment Agency, and Public Financing Authority

of Imperial Beach was provided and posted on January 9, 2009. Said meeting to be held at 9:00 a.m.,

January 13, 2009, in the Dempsey Holder Safety Center, 2

California. Said notice was posted at the entrance to the City Council Chambers and the Dempsey

Holder Safety Center on January 9, 2009 at 12:30 p.m.

Jacqueline M. Hald, CMC

City Clerk

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I have republished this story because I spoke during public comments at the workshop last Tuesday to address this very same issue.  It has been ignored by the City Council for a very long time because they actually don’t want the public to know what they are doing, lest the council chambers be filled with angry citizens every other Wednesday evening!

Time to set the TVO and miss Southpark. Time to fill out a speakers slip. If you are not registered to vote or have not signed or facilitated  a recalll petition, then get registered. If you don’t know how, write us and someone will  assist you. The only way to change the current predator RDA Secret Government is to Recall it’s leaders who also wear City Council and City Staff Hats.

We’ve been able to figure out they don’t listen….and…..they don’t care!   Vote them out of office. Where they really belong is in jail !