The Palm Beach Post editorial of April 8 was entitled "Commissioner's shared meals feed suspicions of secrecy."
This was about the fact that before every city commission meeting, they feed their faces BEHIND LOCKED DOORS at city hall. One of our residents wrote to the commission complaining about it and she never heard back from one single commissioner. Anyone surprised? She told them that she would be knocking on the door and joining them for dinner, tape recorder in hand.
The mayor, Pam Triolo, gave a big explanation at a recent commission meeting saying that it started with her baked ziti and next Commissioner Amoroso brought in some homemade meatloaf. They used to have it in the conference room where anyone walking by could see them or enter the room. That was not to their liking and they changed it to the city manager's office, behind locked doors, probably about the time when those secret meetings were being held on giving away our beach complex.
If they had bothered to ask their city attorney, he would have told them that perception is everything in spite of the fact that they weren't talking about city business while they were chowing down.
Oh, and the city manager exaggerated once again when he said that meetings dragged toward midnight giving that as an excuse for these private dinners. All of these meetings, controlled by this majority commission, end early. Most everything is passed on Consent Agenda with ZERO discussion.
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3 comments:
These three, Amoroso,Triolo,and Maxwell are lying thru their pointy little teeth ! Not discussing city business? BULLCHIT !! DOUBLE BULLCHIT!! They vote in lockstep, everything is planned out in advance. These "dinners" are where Bornstein and William Waters tell them how they will be voting and what they will be approving that night ! Thank you to the Palm Beach Post for pulling down the pants of the dishonest trio spanking them in public!
i don't think andy should be eating this kind of food while in a bad state of health
After all, they have to practice their lines before presenting their next act at Commission meetings! Poor things, you know how frustrating it must be to actually have to listen to voters. As if they had any say in Lake Worth. I find it very amusing when Chris speaks up and they get all flustered and angry. You see he was never written into this play. Soon to be a big hit. It's called "Moving Forward." And we go on the honor system here. If a deal takes place before meetings or at Callero's, it just won't be announced officially until the next Commission meeting. And that's OK because the IG is friends with Michael Bornstein, so we know it's all on the up and up.
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