Watch Kit Bobko Blatantly Violate The Brown Act in a Public Meeting
This meeting above was the first City Council's first attempt at a public meeting that did not go so well for them. They tried sneak it onto the agenda of a School Board Meeting that was supposed to be about public safety and it back fired on them. Preventing discussion of certain issues on the agenda is a Violation of the Brown Act.
Will one of the 5 City Council members crack and break the code of silence by November? Or will the Citizens revolt and elect 3 responsible Hermosa Beach citizens who work for the Communities best interest not their own. We need to make sure that our elected officials loyalty is not divided by serving on board(s) or organizations where there can be conflicting interest. We need to make sure that our elected officials are disclosing information, signing legal agreements, hiring reputable companies and City Attorneys that we can trust.
A lawsuit was filed in the town Sanford / Broome County, N.Y., whose town board has blocked discussion of fracking at public meetings. This is very similar to what is going on in Hermosa Beach and the City Council trying to deflect responsibility to a regulatory process. This video of Sanford, New York are what future meetings in Hermosa Beach are going to look like if the City Council continue to stand behind their illegal code of silence and not commenting the agreement or oil drilling.
The Natural Resources Defense Council and Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy argue that the board of the town of Sanford violated citizens’ right to free speech (Brown Act) when it voted unanimously to block any further discussion of the controversial natural gas extraction technique during the public comment sections of town board meetings. (See the video above.)
