July 24, 2024
I went to the courthouse today to take care of a couple things. One was that I attended the county commissioners meeting as I had a folder of information for them concerning our battle to be free of Saddleback Road District and start our own road district. The folder had documentation that the road district was never legal.
They took the info and said they’d have the county attorney look at it. As expected.
So, then I went to a few more offices to check some stuff. I had a question as to how it was legal to raise the road tax so much. Spoke to Marilyn and Dana who explained how this particular road tax works. This was NOT explained to us at the initial meetings where road tax was discussed.
Just one more bullshit maneuver in a long line of many concerning this road district.
I made a comment about the trustees making decisions behind closed doors and Dana said that the trustees just need to make meeting minutes available, they don’t have to invite me to the meeting.
I said that indeed they did and before he responded with what was going to be an obvious pat on the head, I asked if I could show him something. He acquiesced and I took out my print out of the 1-25 Open Meeting Laws and read the very first one, which I had highlighted.
1-25-1. Official meetings open to public–Exceptions–Public comment–Violation as misdemeanor.
The official meetings of the state and its political subdivisions are open to the public unless a specific law is cited by the state or the political subdivision to close the official meeting to the public.
He raised an eyebrow and said, “Oh…”
They also gave me copies of meeting minutes that I hadn’t seen before. These are from meetings that I knew had taken place, had ASKED for the minutes… and was told via email from our secretary, Matthew Christensen, that there wasn’t an official meeting so no minutes.
I have those emails. And now I have the meetings minutes which have miraculously appeared in the road district file. And they suspiciously have a LOT of additional information that simply looks like a whole bunch of CYA. Basically it is absolute bullshit. And a whole bunch of misspellings. Seriously, it looks like they were in such a hurry to get this in the file they didn’t even read back through it or run a simple spellcheck.
I have to wonder if the reason they suddenly are trying to cover their collective asses is because they finally read any one of the messages from me stating the laws they are breaking, or if the County Attorney was able to contact them and they realized, “Shit… she really did know what she was talking about…”
We have to discuss whether we want to go forward sans attorney in a regular civil court case. It seems obvious they will have one, but I would ask for a jury trial and lay all this shit bare. An attorney could skate out of a few of these issues, but the shear weight of the total issue, in my opinion, would sway a jury and there might be damages, considering this is discrimination against the small group of us. And possibly damages for my emotional stress and losing sleep over this bullshit.