'Newspg11.indd' by The Newscaster

While I appreciate the coverage The Newscaster gives us, some important details

were missing from the April 30th article "Inglis Special Meeting `Unseats' White as Com-

the timber beetle larva? This

First, the Newscaster article didn't mention Commissioner Kesterson had been invited

thumb-sized insect eats trees by

to and was attending the lunch meeting in question. That's where the problem lay - under

slicing through wood fiber with

the Sunshine Law, two Commissioners can't sit down for lunch, either by themselves or

its mandibles, or jaws. That's

with others, and "talk shop." That's why Commissioner White was asked to leave. And

what Oregon logger Joseph

that's why, when he would not, I called the Town Attorney and asked for his advice. Sec-

Buford Cox (1905 - 2002) real-

ond, and I say this for his own benefit (if his version of events is allowed to stand, he's con-

ized when he was taking a rest

fessing to violating the Sunshine Law), Commissioner White did not "sit in" for ten minutes

break from chopping wood. He

before I realized he was there. Commissioner White is many things ... "inconspicuous" is

noticed that the mandibles were

not one of them. I was aware of his presence when he entered the restaurant, he approached

C-shaped and moved sideways,

us immediately and I asked him to excuse himself immediately.

like scissors cutting.

I don't know why Commissioner White felt it necessary to crash the meeting.

He saw Commissioner Kesterson there; he knows the Sunshine Law doesn't allow him to

Earlier in the twentieth century, chainsaws had teeth that were pointed like

meet with other Commissioners except during duly advertised public meetings of the whole

those on a hand saw. The original chainsaws were just copies of hand saws. Cox

Commission. Acting Mayor Feldhausen and Mr. Williams certainly know it, which is why

decided to copy the beetle's curved C-shaped mandibles and see what would happen.

this incident was so embarrassing for our Town.

Mayor Glenda Kirkland

The result was astonishing; his newly designed chainsaw blade cut quickly and cleanly

through wood much more efficiently than earlier designs. Cox went on to establish the

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Commissioner Bell & Bill Williams.

The Newscaster conducted two interviews in connection with the meeting men-

Commission & Public Q&A.

tioned above by mayor Glenda Kirkland. Niether of the two interviews revealed the name

Next Steps- Where do we go from here?

of the first commissioner present at the meeting. Mayor Kirkland sent us a copy of and

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Commissioner Bell & Bill Williams.

referrred us to the memo from attorney Brad Bettin.

Bettin, also did not refer to each commissioner by name but used the reference the

1st commissioner, the 2nd commissioner, and a 3rd commission.

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Bettin wrote: "You (Mayor Kirkland) invited one of our Commissioners to the

meeting because he's particularly interested in the subject matter, to which you invited one

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of our Commissioners. While you were meeting, another one of our Commissioners came

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on the scene, sought to join the meeting. You expressed your concern about the Sunshine

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Law, but the second Commissioner would not leave. I told you that, given the meeting was

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in a public place, you weren't in a position to insist that the second Commissioner leave,

which left you with one option: adjourn your meeting and reconvene (if at all) in a place

where you had authority to control access to the meeting (such as your office or the office of

one of the other participants). You report that you did adjourn the meeting, and that soon af-

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ter, a third Commissioner appeared in the vicinity and was observed talking with the second

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Commissioner." We learned after going to press last week that the 1st commissioner was

Steve Kesterson, the 2nd was Drew White, and the third commissioner was Sally Price.

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Commissisoner Price said there were many inaccuracies in the the account given

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by the mayor and attorney Bettin's memo and she would address them appropriately.

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What we now know is that commissioner White felt he should have been invited

to the meeting with the consulting/lobbying group because he was president of the com-

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Aroomfullcitizensturnedoutthe  Day of Prayer Thursday night at the Inglis mission. Commissioner Price said she should have been present because she had attended

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Community around the flag pole at noon takes place yearly to pray for the training sessions dealing the the BP Oil spill recovery funds.

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They will all get their chance to meet in a special joint workshop sheduled for May

evening meeting, the town government and the mayor leading it, the youth and youth leaders

and the challenges of our citizens led by Pastor Bobby Thompson of the Inglis Baptist Church. 13th along with the Yankeetown council. The workshop will be held in the Inglis Commis-

In the evening service different leaders in the community churches prayed individually for the sion room at 135 Hwy 40 W. in Inglis at 11 am. The attorney's full document can be read by

going to http://thenewscaster.com/inglis/audio.html.

Church, community, country, children and convictions. Photo/story by Sally Price.

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