Slog - Comments on State Law Calls Port Commissioner's Alibi into Question http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi Defending her lone signature authorizing Mic Dinsmore's controversial $340,000 retirement payout, Port Commissioner Pat Davis insists she discussed the matter with her fellow commissioners at two executive sessions last year. Three of her four colleagues say the package was never discussed. Guess what? It seems to me that debate is irrelevant. I'm certainly not a lawyer, but as I read the subsection of the Open Public Meetings Act that deals with Executive sessions, it seems you're not allowed to discuss salary and related issues behind closed doors in the first place. The Open Public Meetings Act lists nine topics (A-I),... Copyright 2008 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:55:49 -0800 Mon, 07 May 2007 18:49:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by RonK, Seattle Key phrases include "generally applied" and "final action".

The Davis/Dinsmore memo is improper on its face, regardless how it was conceived and gestated. (My guess would be that Dinsmore dictated it and Davis signed off, rather than the other way around.)

The ethics apparatus can grind slow and fine. There's no relief in the process for Davis, who just has another 60 days to twist slowly in the wind.

60 days does take it past filing week for Port Commission races. If a vacancy then develops, I'm not sure what happens. Might be that the interim appointee serves until the 2008 general election, rather than having to run immediately in 2007.

]]> RonK, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703242 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703242 News Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:17:50 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Nice brass tacks, Josh.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703295 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703295 News Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:07:05 -0800 Comment by Bill Bigguy Besides those imprecise key phrases that seem to allow some discussion as long as there's no action, the majority of the commish says the talk never took place anyway.

]]> Bill Bigguy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703324 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703324 News Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:35:12 -0800 Comment by Ether Or You may not be a lawyer Josh, but you did a credible job of reading the statutes and applying them to the facts at hand. That’s a lot better than some lawyers can do.

On the following webpage are drafts of part of the new ordinance Sound Transit wants voters to approve in November:

soundtransit.org/x4862.xml

Take a look-see. What do you think?

If anything doesn’t seem to make sense, by all means SLOG about it. We’re a helpful bunch, out here in the ether . . ..

]]> Ether Or http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703349 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703349 News Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:55:35 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Keep at this - the plot thickens!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703366 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c703366 News Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:16:28 -0800 Comment by Josephine http://it.orge.pl/affitti-privati.html affitti privati

]]> Josephine http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c709796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/state_law_calls_port_commissioners_alibi#c709796 News Mon, 07 May 2007 18:49:39 -0800