"We must forge a consensus on a sustainable approach..."
Translation: We will illegally meet behind closed doors and determine what the end result of these meetings will be. Then we will ram through our leftist agenda at public meetings by isolating and attacking critics and violating and ignoring the open meetings laws.
I'm not familiar with the open meetings laws in that part of the country, but I'd recommend you folks look into the law.
In my part of the country, we had the eco-fascists and the usual gang of profiteers trying to ram through ecological zoning in the county. From the get-go the meeting violated several clauses of our open meetings law. Before the meeting was two minutes old we got up and threatened the organizers with a civil suit for violating the law, and then we assured them that we'd be seeking criminal charges against the organizers. (They were repeat offenders and our open meetings law stipulates criminal charges for multiple violations.)
The green gang got real quiet and the meeting dissolved real fast. We assured them that next time they tried to pull that crap we wouldn't warn them. Instead, we would call the sheriff to shut the meeting down, and then we would seek criminal charges against the organizers.
I would further recommend you buy the local county sheriff and his deputies lots of doughnuts and get them on your side.
Good luck at the meeting.
The MSM supports these leftist with the phony "consensus process" and helps drive the most devastating stuff right past the people... Even those being hurt most by it until it's too late to help them!!!
I sincerely wish that any FReepers that were either involved in any part of the Jarbidge, NV road re-opening or the Klamath Tea Party or the Bucket Brigade here on FR, even if you just lurked or actually showed up would check in on this thread to contribute thoughts, prayers, or even actions!
We all knew when 9-11 rightfully sucked all the oxygen out of this issue that it would be back with all the remorseless, relentless, ruthless leftists pounding away at these righteous, actual victims who only want to be good productive Americans!!!
Excuse me. I have to step out for a couple of minutes to run to the store and buy a bag of Lays Potato Chips, grown in Klamath Falls!!!