Civil Service Comm. 2/14/2012

Here is the video from tonight's Civil Service Commission meeting.

EH News 1/30/2012

Besides the BOE Special Marilyn and I taped at the end of January, we also taped the Hongo interview and a discussion of the EHPD issues and the famous "tacos" comment by Mayor Maturo. Most of the show is taken up by the Hongo interview.

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PZC 2/1/2012 ***All videos uploaded***

Here is Part 1 of the meeting from last night. I will post the rest as they get uploaded.

The only items on the agenda were for "Heroes Village" on Route 80 in Foxon. There was substantial public anger about this project and, what the commentators felt, was a poor design on the wrong piece of land. The application failed miserably.

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Police Commission 1/31/2012 Video

I finally got the video converted and uploaded. There is going to be a lot of shaking and moving in the video since I had to move the camera to cover the public comment part of the meeting. Normally I use a fairly stationary camera position. However, with the number of people and camera crews in attendance that was not possible.

EH News 1/30/2012 BOE Special

Here is the show Marilyn and I taped this week. We focus on the 2 BOE Subcommittee meetings and play extended clips from each meeting and give our commentary.

Police Commission 1/31/2012

Nothing is worse than bad political theater and we had a bushel full of that tonight at the Police Commission meeting. The room was packed with politicos of both parties and enough reporters and camera crews to sink a cruise liner. The assembled mass of citizenry took to cheering when their side said something they liked and sulking or grumbling when the opposite happened. There were so many TV crews and reporters there the public comment had to be held over on one side of the room near the kitchen.

The Police Commission passed a resolution asking Mayor Maturo to fire Chief Gallo. Another motion to disband the Learn Committee also passed. A third motion to file a complaint with the CCHRO over the Mayor's taco remarks and the actions of Chief Gallo passed. The first 2 motions will be ignored by the Mayor. I'm not sure how far the 3rd motion will get but it should keep me reporting on politics for awhile.

A surprise 4th motion was added to the agenda. The motion forms a Police Commission Advisory Board consisting of the 2 departing Police Commissioners. For the humor factor alone I give that the high marks for the night.

I'll post the video when I get it downloaded later tonight or early tomorrow. Till then here are some pictures to give you an idea of how crowded the Senior Center was.