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FROM: Supervisor Nancy Fanden Costa
DATE: February 27, 1990 C"' "J
FULL INVESTIGATION & REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES
SUBJECT: SURROUNDING THE M-17 CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
That the County Administrator conduct a full investigation
and report back to the Board of Supervisors on the
activities surrounding the M-17 Citizens Advisory Committee.
That staff come back with a full report within a month' s
time.
BACKGROUND:
The M-17 Citizens Advisory Committee and staff have been
under verbal and sometimes physical attack for well over two
years. The hostility expressed at some of the meetings has
been so intense that some meetings have had to end abruptly.
It' s gotten to the point that every decision of the
Committee is met with negative comment from some of the
Committee members or a small group of residents in
attendance - followed by letters- to the editor almost on a
weekly basis. These constant unrelenting attacks are taking
their toll on staff and Committee members. It' s becoming
harder and harder to function properly.
Dennis Fransen, Staff to the Committee, and Paula
Christiansen, Director of the MonTaraBay Community Center,
have done their utmost to maintain open communication with
the Committee and the public. However, they themselves have
drawn criticism that borders libel, and is certainly far and
above what any public servant should have to deal with month
after month after month.
The situation has reached a point whereby it can no longer
be tolerated. The meetings have become counterproductive,
inflict great pain and anguish on all those participating,
and is not serving the best interests of the public or those
who are unselfishly serving as unpaid volunteers.
If a solution cannot be found to restore an open forum free
of hostility and antagonism, then the County must look at
alternative means of receiving public input.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT:- YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON February 27, 1990 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED
az,
Dennis Fransen, CDD Phil Batchelor, OR of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator
BY DEPUTY