It’s unacceptable that the mayor and council continue
to hold their work sessions in a small conference room that has no space to accommodate
the public. It’s disrespectful for
elected officials to have their backs to the public during meetings. These issues were raised numerous
times in 2013 and 2014.
It’s a long time practice of the mayor and council
to go right into “closed session” at the beginning of their work sessions to
encourage people to go home and deter them from attending in the future.
Lodi should be very grateful to Al Mastrofilipo for
videotaping these public meetings. He is
bringing transparency to Lodi. He is doing what our elected officials should have done years ago.
The discussions of the mayor and council clearly took place somewhere else, not in "open".
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