Elk Konnected Hand out at County Commissioners meeting on 4/25

[Patriot]

Night time meetings are not very convenient for the commissioners, either.  Taking extra time away from their homes and families when they are already away from home as much as any of the other working people.  Also, the regular employees of the county have more county business with the commissioners than citizens.  It would make a hardship on the other employees if they had to come back at night to present their business to the commissioners.  A telephone call during the day or evening takes much less time than going to a meeting...

So let me get this straight... The public and their access to public officials at public meetings by potentially thousands of citizens should take a back seat to the personal convenience of 3 to 6 elected officials (who volunteered for the job, by the way) and 6 or so hours time each month for half a dozen county employees whose pay and benefits are provided by that same taxpaying public.  Balderdash!  Remember that "of the people, by the people, and for the people" stuff they used to teach in government schools?  Give me a break!

It's that kind of thinking, IMO, that helps feed to the arrogant exercise of power we see in government these days.  And what about the Kansas Open Meetings Act you don't understand?  Phone call my arse.  Back to civics class for you, darlin.

[Catwoman]

Mrs. C, Lisa, Diane, Wilma, Janet, Flint, Jefe, Ready, Larry and anyone other comparitively sane, moderate, civil individual...The only way to kill this thread...And eliminate all this falteral...Is if we quit posting on this and just go away to enjoy the other boards/threads where these two to three individuals aren't allowed to absolutely dominate in the manner they're been allowed to here.  These yahoos keep posting the same thing, over and over and over again.  They're just burning rubber off of tires that lost their treads many pages ago.     

[Patriot]

...way to kill this thread...

Yes cat, mirroring your instructions across a number of threads is the best way.....

Speaking of motives and agendas.  Yes cat, giving folks your instructions is surely the solution.  Try to control their behavior.  Tell them not to watch the train wreck while saying that it is they who help perpetuate the carnage that you perceive.  Then again, maybe their sane, moderate nature is what keeps them engaged.  Maybe not.  But I prefer Teresa's general approach: Let individuals be who they are, say what they wish, resisting outside demands to shut up or kill it, and let the chips fall where they may.

What do you really  fear?  Is it that at some point the factual answers will appear... and will turn out to be a real  train wreck?  Or that it may be your folly that outside readers are silently judging?

[Catwoman]

 

[Wilma]

You are so right, Cat.

[srkruzich]

Lemmings

[kshillbillys]

LMAO Steve! Lemmings=Nature's retards!---MR. KSH

[Ross]

Can't we all just get along?

Who steers the steering committee?

Who are the admitted members who own, and run,
Elk Konnected?

Who is their Leader?

[Catwoman]

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
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I seen ya around for a long long time
I remember when things without you were fine

Why can't we be friends
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I'd seen ya walkin' down in Chinatown
I called ya but you could not look around

Why can't we be friends
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Why can't we be friends

I pay my money to the welfare line
I see ya standing in it every time

Why can't we be friends
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The lack of your intellect doesn't matter to me
As long as we can live in harmony

Why can't we be friends
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Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

I'd kinda' like to be the president
So I could show you how your money's spent

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

Sometimes I don't speak right
But yet I know what I'm talking about

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
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Why can't we be friends

You think you're working for the CIA
They wouldn't have you in the mafia

Why can't we be friends
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Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
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Whoops...I did it again...Being a lemming, helping to create yet more senseless pages on this thread...   I'll go quietly now...

[Ross]

I went to a meeting tonight and guess what, no one called for the Sheriff.
I don't believe there were any around.
It was an actual Community Conversation.
No circle of chairs.
And no one was saying we have to keep things positive.
No facilitator.

How did that work you may ask?
Just great and there was a lot of good attitude in the room.
Cool, huh?

This is important.
They had a piece of paper at the door for people to sign if they wanted to address the school board.
No one signed it. Amazing, huh?

It was a Community Conversation sponsored by the Elk Valley School Board.
First they introduced the new school superintendent who had a few words to say
which included a bit of his back ground.
Then the School supt. introduced Jeff King who also had a few things to say
about Kansas Education and Legislature.

They handed out paper work to everyone that was there concerning the mill levy they were discussing.
Documentation that's what the paper work was.

It included a piece of paper from the Office of the County Treasurer that explained in detail how a
6 mill levy would affect residential property assessed at $50,000 would be roughly $34.50.
And so on for Agricultural and pasture land.

They also hand out a print out from the Kansas State Department of Education that showed Elk Valley had the second lowest mill levy in Kansas. The page showed roughly 50 other school districts and guess what West Elk wasn't on there.

There was another page that showed the following mill levies"
Elk Valley 34.69
West Elk   49.71

Then after checking their list to se who wanted to address the School board and found no signatures
they had an open session for the public to speak.

It was a real plesant meeting even though I left before the meeting ended,
I knew the people were going to remain civil. And no sheriff around.
Amazing, just amazing. A real Community Conversation.

Good night folks.

Who steers the steering committee?

Who are the admitted members who own, and run,
Elk Konnected?

Who is their Leader?