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Show Commission meeting minutes areislanted and inaccurate history. So it is with the Davis County Commissioners' minutes, thfySre slanted to reflect only what Commissioners Peters and Stevenson Steven-son want them to read. So, citizens of Davis County, if you really want to know what goes on, I suggest you do as I do and attend at-tend the meetings. . -' - . . ' ' But in spite of the two commissioners' commis-sioners' promise to Commissioner Lawrence that they wouldn't hold closed meetings, except for per- ; sonal or legal problems, or discussion discus-sion of land purchases; a big majority of the decisions made are For several months now, I have been attending the Public Meetings of the Davis County Commissioners Commis-sioners on Monday afternoons and Wetaeyoiiungs7iieaTlyveTy week.-i--- - - I take my own ' notes as the meetings are conducted. Recendy I have been asking for copies of the minutes, and I : have noticed that much of. the information has been omitted from the minutes. : Last Wednesday, Aug. 9, some citizens from the Northwest end of the county were on the Agenda, to ask when they were going to be granted a wet lands permit to drain their lands. They had been promised prom-ised this permit last spring, before the snow had even melted. Then, they were promised they would have it in 60 days. Commissioner Lawrence had been up to see the land and the water flooding it These citizens specifically asked Commissioners ' - Peters and Stevenson to come up-and up-and see what it is they are dealing , with and just what it is they want But their request was totally ig- r nored by the two commissioners. They also were willing to sell 30 . acres of their land at a very reasonable cost to the county. Commissioner . Chairman Peters immediately called Sid Smith, the Public Work$ Director for the county, coun-ty, to answer their questtonsr After Mr. Smith gave a lengthy sermon on the history of floods in Davis County, dating back to 1923, he concluded at first, that it would take at least 90 more days before they could obtain a wet lands permit to drain it , i When Commissioner Lawrence reminded him that these Citizens came in last spring (for this permit) even before the snow was gone, and to add another 90 days onto their request will put them back into the - snow season again; then Mr. Smith blamed it onto the EPA, Wild Life and the Corps of Engineers, who . will not jssue a permit to drain the iwet lands. They -had much more discussion on it But the only statements that got into the minutes were some of the ones that Sid Smith made. At the August 14 meeting, when it came time to approve Aug. 9 minutes, Commissioner Lawrence -wanted the three requests made by 1 the citizens included and also some of his own statements. Commissioner Commis-sioner Stevenson said that the minutes were 1 supposed to only reflect their actions and not a dialogue. dia-logue. , I looked up the word 'minutes' in the dictionary and it defines them as: "written summary; - official record of iroceedlngs of a society, board, committee, etc.' So, they 1 should reflect a summary pf Jhe proceedings of their meetings and " not just the actions of the commission. commis-sion. - ; The real history of the world has either been lost or so twisted and : perverted that comparatively speaking, speak-ing, we know very little, of the real not made in the public meetings. Are Commissioners Peters and Stevenson trying to hide something? It appears like they are. Anyone who attends the meetings regularly and then reads a report in the paper, such as appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1989 (before the next public meeting); under the title of "Davis Says Minutes Will Stand" (Special to the Tribune); after they promised on Monday that Commissioner ; Lawrence could write his own paragraph on those citizens' requests; knows that many decisions are not made in the public meetings, but in closed meetings. Wake up Davis County citizens! Before it is too late! . - Pearl Wendel y ' Bountiful |