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 |   Norma's Wanderings around a small section of Montana |
It's been busy here. Lots of activity it seems. I report for the paper. I am secretary and treasurer for the refuse board. I am in the community theater for the city. Lot of 'drama'. The latest is the mayor is mad at me. Well, perhaps not 'mad' but upset at what I wrote about the last city council meeting. Especially what I wrote about the public comment portion of the meeting. All I did was write what the person stated. But the kicker is the city and the Sheriff's department are currently not getting along. The city contracts with the Sheriff for services, since the city doesn't have a police department. So there is an agreement. The county pays for the Sheriff. The city pays the county. I know, very convoluted. So, the the problem, and I think I mentioned this a while back, is the Sheriff deputies went out a while ago and put stickers on cars and other vehicles that were considered abandoned. Now some were, some were not. Got the town in an uproar. Basically because there was no real follow through on this plan. There was no plan by the city on what to be done next. No place to to tow the vehicles. No one contracted to do said towing. Egads. There is a citizen that comes to every meeting and comments on this. 'Why haven't you figured this out?' is basically his complaint. A valid complaint in my opinion. Here is what I wrote that got the mayor all in an uproar: During public comment time, The falling concrete on Main Street near the Pharmacy was again mentioned. This issue was referred to Lon Sibley. The person issuing the complaint is to discuss this matter privately. Other comments included the fact that law enforcement does not attend the city council meetings. The city ordered Sheriff’s deputies to put stickers on abandoned vehicles with no followup on those warnings. The Sheriff called his constituents a name, and the council should take action. The person addressing this issue stated that the city attorney should give his legal opinion on the matter. So the publisher called me, after the mayor called her, and stated she is going to do a retraction in the paper. And from now on, perhaps be more careful about what you write. Take a recorder, which I don't have, so you can listen to it later and get the exact words. Whatever. She didn't come so far as to say I was in the wrong. And that I could no longer report. But I do know she doesn't want anything in the paper that smacks of controversy in any way, shape or form. Again, whatever. She'll be safe for awhile. The meetings are on Tuesday nights, play practice nights. This morning I woke up from a weird dream. I'm almost too afraid to check the news. The dream had foreign agents getting stabbed and disembowled. Weird. But then, the entire world is in an uproar right now. |
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