Comments on: Gavel skips next in line for deputy mayor http://thecoastnews.com/2009/12/gavel-skips-next-in-line-for-deputy-mayor/ Making Waves in Your Neighborhood Sat, 18 May 2013 13:44:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: concerned citizen http://thecoastnews.com/2009/12/gavel-skips-next-in-line-for-deputy-mayor/comment-page-1/#comment-6976 concerned citizen Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:49:37 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=39356#comment-6976 Yes, Maggie could have simply declined. The post is more than ceremonial. The Mayor has more power because he or she can set the agenda. Also, it’s political. Dan will be mayor when he comes up for reelection next November. I plan on voting against him. The opinion that Glenn Sabine used in his “analysis” for which he was handsomely compensated, ir really irrelevant to the issue of whether or not the City gives 72 hour notice for closed sessions held before regular Council Meetings. It is legal to have a special meeting with only 24 hour notice, but to label every single closed session a special “stand alone” meeting is disingenuous and is an obvious “construct” to circumvent the intent of the Brown Act which is open government that maximizes the opportunity for public participation, not minimizing it. Also, Dan Dalager was duplicitous in the Orpheus Part Tree Massacre incident. After an uproar from the public and much press coverage, staff was directed to come back with a report on the tree removal. Dan Dalager recused himself from discussion in pubic, but he was eager to send out e-mails and also to go over to Paul Ecke Central School, right next to the park, to let the teachers and administration at the school know that he was in favor of the trees being cut down and he was adamantly opposed to any protesting by the school children. I also would never vote for Dan Dalager again and I really pray that others do not, so that we can get fresh perspective on Council. Dalager also violated the Calif. Public Records Act and City policy by destroying his e-mails about the tree incident and not supplying them when CPRA requests were submitted. He feels that he has gotten away with his violations of the public trust for so long that he is immune.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, as Lincoln said.

]]> By: encinitasyouneedus http://thecoastnews.com/2009/12/gavel-skips-next-in-line-for-deputy-mayor/comment-page-1/#comment-6975 encinitasyouneedus Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:27:53 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=39356#comment-6975 What a welcome relief to see this story publicized. For too long the majority on the council and many within the city staff have worked against the public good. It is good to have someone seated who champions the people, and should be made deputy mayor.

]]> By: Joan Marchese http://thecoastnews.com/2009/12/gavel-skips-next-in-line-for-deputy-mayor/comment-page-1/#comment-6974 Joan Marchese Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:20:29 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=39356#comment-6974 Teresa Barth has been keeping me posted on the City’s news which is much appreciated. Maggie should decline the Deputy post and the Council should stick to the letter of the law for Council members rotation. I would never vote in Dan Dalleger.

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