Blog Shut Down

Hi. I did not make it to the Spring Joint Council meeting.
Afterwards, I was called into the Mayor's office because of my blog in late March or so was discussed at that meeting and found wanting. It seems some of my colleagues on Town and County Council objected to aspects of the blog.

The Mayor supported my right to speak. But he told me that Joint Council had instructed him to remind me that the three councils voted to hold those meetings In Camera or closed to the public and press. Joint Council then recalled that it had failed to make a Press Release available after those meeting (something it had committed to do after its first one last year). So, a pyrric victory. No more reporting from those mtgs by Mike G, but look for the press release.


One parallel thought.

When Town Council votes to hold closed Joint Council Meetings, that vote should come as a motion on our Town Council Agenda, and be taken and recorded in public. At least then the public will get a clear sense of who likes open democracy, and who doesn't.