Public comment for Agenda Items 4 & 17 council for the unhoused autocratic edicts and the resulting 3pm April 27th court hearing The court date for the formal hearing on Sebastopol councillors decision to create a ‘safe parking’ campsite on the former Amerigas site has now been set for
April 27th at 3:00pm.
There are no instructions so far on how concerned City of Sebastopol residents will be able to log in on Zoom but this information is apparently forthcoming.
There has been no town hall meeting discussion as previously agreed, when frank conversations could be had. Instead the council has deliberately ‘run the clock’ in recent public meetings to avoid any discussion of their public relations style ‘reports’ on their project, choosing to devote time to resurrecting discussion of consultant commissioned conceptual changes to Ives Park, a project which has no urgency or budget and was last discussed in 2010. Enraging local parents of baseball playing children and local businesses by debating whether to close Polley field ate up enough time to avoid any discussion of the transient co dependency project.
Sadly the council is continuing their disingenuous, self congratulatory celebrations of their project with SAVS framed as ‘reports’, but I expect agenda item 17 ‘report out’ (not ‘listening in’ to city citizens wishes) will have to be postponed again as it will be ‘too late’ to discuss it. I had previously marked up the last ‘report’ with a number of comments but that wasn’t discussed.
The budget overruns and extensions of ever mutating ‘emergency powers’ are typical of council actions, as are the broken promises of ‘no generators’ at the Amerigas site.
The city need to put citizen concerns first.
Oliver Marks | Downtown City of Sebastopol