Vacation notice, etc.


Dear reader,


I am heading out to the playa for a week to enjoy the Burning Man art festival. I will be back on September 7th. My apologies for leaving you this way, but know that I plan to return refreshed and excited about this project and other endeavors in my life.


One item of business I've been meaning to address. It turns out that the third week of the month is very popular. Long story short, every meeting I plan to cover for the Wire takes place simultaneously with another meeting, so I will have to alternate them from month to month. It is unfortunate, but there you go. I don't schedule the meetings; I just try to attend them.


In any case, I will continue keeping you abreast of the best in the West.


West County Wire
Over and Out 

Harmony Union School District

Regular Board Meeting

August 19, 2010

Late again

I arrived late to this meeting as well. It looked like it lateness might be becoming a pattern for me, but in this instance, I might be excused. The District website had brought me to the school a week previous, and tonight I went to the announced location at what I thought was the announced time only to find the meeting was actually scheduled somewhere else a half an hour earlier than I thought. Other patterns were to emerge over the course of the evening, though, patterns within patterns like something from an Escher print. It turns out that working on local boards helps one develop a taste for small town politics. Or maybe it’s the other way around.

Camp Meeker

Recreation and Parks District

Regular Meeting August 17, 2010:

The wonders of parliamentary procedure,

or Robert's v. Brown

The last item of new business concerned District parliamentary procedure. It was scheduled for 10 minutes on the agenda, but the ensuing discussion went on for much longer than that. Like most small town politics, it amounted to a tempest in a teapot with only slightly more than ego at stake.

The issue originally germinated at the beginning of the year, when four new board members joined Cathie Anderson, who has been on the board for 25 years or more. In the process, Jeffry Fawcett became the board president and Gary Helfrich was made a bystander. 

Camp Meeker

Recreation and Park District

Regular meeting

August 17, 2010

Agenda Packet

I arrived 15 minutes late to find the room full, or at least near to it. Turned out it was full of partisans ready for combat, but I’m getting ahead of myself. (And by full, of course, I mean 8 people including the four-person board and the young lady in the back room with a coloring book.)

By coming late, I missed the water system operator report, the report on the Tower Bridge repair and Director Fawcett’s discussion of the Camper Meeker Commons. I did not, however, arrive so late that there was any time for much of significance to have happened with these three items of old business, so I'll just pick up where I came in.

FAQ

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Bodega Volunteer Fire Department

Regular Monthly Business Meeting: 

Big Event and the Art and Wine Festival

The meeting, possibly the last one held in McCaughey hall, was called to order at 7:38 pm. In what will likely become a recurring theme, and one that reinforces the necessity and utility of this, my little West County Wire blog, I was the only guest in attendance (not counting the children of the Chief, who came with their mother, who is also organizing the Big Event). The Chief even asked if I had brought some new business with me, or maybe a public comment, but no. I was just wearing my reporter’s hat. (Though I did offer some typo corrections for the minutes. I know. I’m just a do-gooder, what can I say?) We sat in two shallow arcs facing the table with Treasurer Nancy Perucchi, Chief Ron Albini, Secretary Jim Grant and Secretary Laird Sutton seated behind it. After the minutes were accepted, the Chief started things rolling with the past month's incident report.

Bodega Volunteer Fire Department, 7:30 pm
Bodega Bay Volunteer Fire Department, 7:30 pm

Tough choice, but this month we're going to have to go with Bodega. The Big Event is coming to this small town on August 15, with a parade at 10 and barbeque, live music, raffles, beer and wine for the rest of the day. Next month, I'll hit Bodega Bay and from then on I'll alternate between the two. Stay tuned for the BVFD report!

Camp Meeker
Recreation and Parks District

PUBLIC HEARING

The Board will take and review public comment on Proposed Resolution No. 2009-011, which will to over-rule protests and confirm the report on water charges and delinquent water charges for the year 2010-2011. This special meeting will take place on Sunday, August 8 at high noon at the District office, 5240 Bohemian Highway.