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How can you argue that this was not a budget meeting?

Here is your agenda.

1.        Call to Order.

2.        Public to Present Ideas and Priorities for 2012/2013 Budget.

3.        Boards and Commissions to Present Ideas and Priorities for 2012/2013 Budget.

4.        Staff to Present Ideas and Priorities for 2012/2013 Budget.

5.        Develop a List of Proposed Budget Priorities for Adoption.

6.        Adjournment.

Every item was about the budget.

This was not only a budget meeting by legal definition, every agenda item was also the legal definition of budget meeting topics.

But where were the equal number of citizen's of the budget committee required by law and the legal quorum of a budget committee of 14 members as also required by law?

Or was censorship of the public side of the budget committee a part of having it all worked out as you spouted in your recall efforts?

But you clowns just ignored Oregon’s Local Budget Law.

(You’ll find them in Chapter 294 of the Oregon Revised Statutes and chapter 150 of the Oregon Administrative Rules.) These law’s do two important things:

1. They establish standard procedures for preparing, presenting, and administering the budget.

2. They require citizen involvement in the preparation of the budget and public disclosure of the budget before its formal adoption.

All of which you failed to abide by the law.

Now you can explain to the State along with the citizens why you failed to abide by the laws of our state and censored the budget committee.

Cody