As second secret meeting revealed, time for G. Melvin Davis to resign
Chairmans of the Board of Commissioners of Oconee County will come and go, and this is time for current chair G. Melvin Davis to go ahead and resign after the revelation of a second secret meeting in December of 2008 before the first one revealed at the start of this calender year.
The whole stink about the attempted raises by the Oconee County Board of Education now threatens to smear the careers of not only chairman and Barberitos co-owner David Weeks, but also State Representative Bob Smith for being a turncoat if nothing else. To completely understand this local version of a secret cabal, you need a scorecard at the very least. Essentially Board of Commissioners chair G. Melvin Davis called meetings in December of 2008 without proper public notice and this is a crime for which he needs to do the time no longer as a public servant. Please step down now, Chairman Davis, and spare us any more of your public humiliation and embarrassment.
There will be lots of finger pointing about who had originally called for the meeting. Was it the Chamber of Commerce? Was it the Board of Education? Was it the Board of Commissioners? Was it State Representative Bob Smith or State Senator Bill Cowsert? One thing is for certain: all the parties involved should have known better and it is best for the sunshine laws to be applied throughly to the entire procedures and appropriate sanctions should be applied.
All parties should reveal exactly what was known, when it was known and when the plans were first started for these ill conceived meetings. The Board of Education is getting hung out to dry because they wanted to have a relatively small raise at a time when raises were not needed or warranted. The economy is such where raises could not be afforded for such a body as the Board of Commissioners or Board of Education. The people who deserve kudos in this whole convoluted tale would be Board of Commissioners clerk Gina Lindsey, Board of Education member Tom Breedlove and blogger Lee Becker for helping to disinfect the entire stink brought up by the secret meeting fiasco part II.
Whether anything will ever happen because of this poorly planned procedure will be up to you and me, and not just some bloggers or even newspapers. We need to hold our public servants much more accountable and demand no more secret meetings. Read the entire post of Lee Becker's blog here and call in to talk shows, write letters to the editor, ask questions at public gatherings, let your neighbors know what is happening under our noses and take no more crap from our barely elected leaders. It is time for a change, Oconee County, and it is a question of who is going to be made a victim of it: public servants meeting in secret or pubic trust forever vanquished.
The whole stink about the attempted raises by the Oconee County Board of Education now threatens to smear the careers of not only chairman and Barberitos co-owner David Weeks, but also State Representative Bob Smith for being a turncoat if nothing else. To completely understand this local version of a secret cabal, you need a scorecard at the very least. Essentially Board of Commissioners chair G. Melvin Davis called meetings in December of 2008 without proper public notice and this is a crime for which he needs to do the time no longer as a public servant. Please step down now, Chairman Davis, and spare us any more of your public humiliation and embarrassment.
There will be lots of finger pointing about who had originally called for the meeting. Was it the Chamber of Commerce? Was it the Board of Education? Was it the Board of Commissioners? Was it State Representative Bob Smith or State Senator Bill Cowsert? One thing is for certain: all the parties involved should have known better and it is best for the sunshine laws to be applied throughly to the entire procedures and appropriate sanctions should be applied.
All parties should reveal exactly what was known, when it was known and when the plans were first started for these ill conceived meetings. The Board of Education is getting hung out to dry because they wanted to have a relatively small raise at a time when raises were not needed or warranted. The economy is such where raises could not be afforded for such a body as the Board of Commissioners or Board of Education. The people who deserve kudos in this whole convoluted tale would be Board of Commissioners clerk Gina Lindsey, Board of Education member Tom Breedlove and blogger Lee Becker for helping to disinfect the entire stink brought up by the secret meeting fiasco part II.
Whether anything will ever happen because of this poorly planned procedure will be up to you and me, and not just some bloggers or even newspapers. We need to hold our public servants much more accountable and demand no more secret meetings. Read the entire post of Lee Becker's blog here and call in to talk shows, write letters to the editor, ask questions at public gatherings, let your neighbors know what is happening under our noses and take no more crap from our barely elected leaders. It is time for a change, Oconee County, and it is a question of who is going to be made a victim of it: public servants meeting in secret or pubic trust forever vanquished.
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