Foreword: What follows was so short and so odd that I didn't take notes on it, but here it is. Print cannot convey tone of voice or facial expression
After Dawn was done, Jason asked for a motion to pay the bills.
Marie interjected a question about whether the trustees were going to open the three equipment bids that had come in, and Jason affirmed that they would do that after paying the bills.
This is what transpired next:
Jason: I am glad to see everyone is so positive about the actions [tonight]. Everyone has very nice things to say about what we are doing.
Blogger: That was heavily sarcastic. Next:
Jason: I would just like to mention that we do a lot of good things and it is disheartening to come and hear from the public and hear the negative things. You can do 20 great things and there are some people who focus on the negative.
John Festa: There are always a few.
Then the bills were paid.
The rest of the story/history: Jason has apparently forgotten how Mark and Vic were brutalized by Larry's bunch while Jason sat at the table with them. And apparently it was OK with him that Dawn was snotty, insolent, condescending, and insulting to Vic at a previous meeting. I think he did make some admonition about being respectful, but I thought it was feeble.
To be blunt, Jason doesn't know what negative is. He should go onto the private/rogue website and look at the comments board there: lies, inaccuracies (a charitable word for getting it dead flat wrong), and unsupported opinion and name calling that rank right down there with thirteen-year-old girls on social media.
Harry Truman had a little sign on his desk in the White House: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The township has been losing $100,000 a year for the last three years. Is that kind of hemmorrhage to be ignored because there are new signs at several highly visible places? [That is not a shot at anyone not at the front table; it has to do with cosmetics trumping substance.]
I will say that it has been a while since Jason told Marie to be quiet, this is a trustees' meeting.
About This Blog
The purpose of this blog is to give an accurate account of what is said during Public Comment at Mantua Township Trustees meetings.
Trustees' decisions are in the official minutes, available on request from the Mantua Township Fiscal Officer, Jodi Thompson, at 330-274-8443. The Township charges 10 cents per page. FAX, 330-274-8447. E-mail, fiscalofficer@mantuatownshipohio.gov. The minutes are also posted on the website after they have been approved. That means that there is usually a two-week lag between a given meeting and the minutes being available to read on the website.
Since meetings are the first and third Thursdays of the month, there is a three-week wait during months with five Thursdays.
Other items of interest or the writer's opinions will be included from time to time, clearly identified.
This is not a forum or chat room, but a source of information, so it is closed to outside input.
During the time I have been doing the blog, the posts have expanded to become very detailed accounts of the meetings. Doing that is time consuming, to say the least, and I am going to try to return to the public comment focus, with background and perspective (and the occasional pointed editorial comment). Such additions are usually enclosed in brackets. However, since some extended accounts of the meetings reveal significant things--and character--better than I could by commenting, there will probably still be a fair amount of semi-transcript. (Sigh.)
My thanks to the readers who have found the blog, and to the ones who from time to time tell me that they value it. You have encouraged me when the tedious work of keyboarding has made me wonder why I am doing this. Then you have reminded me, and I am grateful.
Trustees' decisions are in the official minutes, available on request from the Mantua Township Fiscal Officer, Jodi Thompson, at 330-274-8443. The Township charges 10 cents per page. FAX, 330-274-8447. E-mail, fiscalofficer@mantuatownshipohio.gov. The minutes are also posted on the website after they have been approved. That means that there is usually a two-week lag between a given meeting and the minutes being available to read on the website.
Since meetings are the first and third Thursdays of the month, there is a three-week wait during months with five Thursdays.
Other items of interest or the writer's opinions will be included from time to time, clearly identified.
This is not a forum or chat room, but a source of information, so it is closed to outside input.
During the time I have been doing the blog, the posts have expanded to become very detailed accounts of the meetings. Doing that is time consuming, to say the least, and I am going to try to return to the public comment focus, with background and perspective (and the occasional pointed editorial comment). Such additions are usually enclosed in brackets. However, since some extended accounts of the meetings reveal significant things--and character--better than I could by commenting, there will probably still be a fair amount of semi-transcript. (Sigh.)
My thanks to the readers who have found the blog, and to the ones who from time to time tell me that they value it. You have encouraged me when the tedious work of keyboarding has made me wonder why I am doing this. Then you have reminded me, and I am grateful.
Principles
Two ideas guide and support me:
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
______Attributed to Edmund Burke
GOOD PREVAILS.
Those ideas are also the reason I have been doing the blog since late February 2011.
I have discovered that a transcript is almost impossible to do and that verbatim accounts are usually not absolutely necessary. When in doubt, I check against a recording.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
______Attributed to Edmund Burke
GOOD PREVAILS.
Those ideas are also the reason I have been doing the blog since late February 2011.
I have discovered that a transcript is almost impossible to do and that verbatim accounts are usually not absolutely necessary. When in doubt, I check against a recording.
