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From:Kitts, Melissa
To:Lee, Lewis
Subject:FW: Getting an Issue on the Agendas for Discussion
Date:Monday, April 28, 2025 9:56:31 AM
Hi Lewis, can you please save this email in BOS correspondence for the May 13th
meeting? Thank you!
From: Cynthia Joy <cynthia.pendery@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2025 3:34 PM
To: Kitts, Melissa <mkitts@buttecounty.net>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net>
Subject: Getting an Issue on the Agendas for Discussion
To the clerk of the board and supervisor for Butte district 5:
I've done my research and what I've learned is that in order to get an issue on the
agendas for discussion and a vote, I am to contact the clerk of the board and my district
supervisor. I've contacted you Melissa, and I've attempted to contact Doug Teeter, but
his secretary /assistant scrambled for a pen and paper for an entire minute and a half
and seemed nonplussed about having to take down my name and number to give to
Doug. I found that to be disconcerting. Also when I spoke with Doug face-to-face at the
Magalia Community Center, last week, following the meeting for the upper Centerville
Canal folks, he couldn't get away fast from me fast enough. He was walking away from
me and going into the doors of the building saying "well you can still get public
comments can't you ?" he scoffed, then he laughed about how we used to not have any
option to provide comment in the beginning of the meeting, at all, as we used to have to
wait until the very end. So he was inferring that we should just be really grateful for the
crumb we're being tossed -that we get anything at all in the morning. SERIOUSLY? I told
him that it is a real problem that the meetings prioritize your own award ceremonies
where you pat each other on your own backs instead of giving priority to what the private
sector, whom you serve, has to say. The limiting our time from five to three minutes,
limiting initial public comment to only 15 minutes in the morning, and prioritizing your
own award ceremonies is the exact opposite of what you should be doing. I am
convinced that the more people in Butte County become aware of what you've been
doing, the more pronounced the outcry will be. It won't just be me. It's totally not OK .
What more is required to get this issue on the agenda so that people realize what Civics
Plus has done to public comment and the videos , and what an affront this is to those the
board is supposed to represent? we didn't vote to have this done. You decided to do this
on your own. It decreases transparency, decreases our voice, decreases our access to
information and only increases further distrust!
Cynthia Joy
Note to Clerk:
Please provide this in the correspondence packet for the next meeting.