“iLegislate seamlessly connects agenda data to the iPad and makes it available for offline viewing. Elected members and staff can review agendas and supporting documents, take notes and bookmark items of interest. This mobile technology enables users to review meeting materials before, during or after a meeting from any location, even without an internet connection. All of your data is automatically backed up to the Granicus cloud once an internet connection is reestablished.”

Not sure what happened on Monday, but the latest version of iLegislate was tested today by the City IT department and it was confirmed that in fact the app does work as advertised. The data can be downloaded, then, the iPad can be switched to Airplane mode (no internet) and members can continue to peruse the necessary data and add comments. Then, they can disable Airplane mode after the meeting, restore network connectivity, and the comments sync to the Granicus cloud.

So it would seem a good compromise solution is to allow and even encourage iPads (saves paper and resources = $$), yet simply require they be put in Airplane mode when used during deliberations on the dais (this can be verified pretty easily). Should members need internet access to pull up relevant data, they can of course access the laptop in the Council chamber that is connected to a projector for all to see. Does this work for everyone?

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This isn’t about a council member’s access or ability to get digital information conveniently. All information used by a council member for making one of these important decisions must be public, subject to scrutiny, response or rebuttal in public while the hearing is still open to public comment.

This protects the ability to have fair and open hearings on project considerations and approvals, appointments, resolutions, ordinances and other critical jobs that council members have sworn to do.

The due process rights of project applicants, opponents, appellants and others doing business with the council are damaged without access to the full legal ‘record’ about their issues. Once the hearing is ‘closed’ to public testimony, no additional information can be slipped to one council member.

As the Brown Act states:
“In enacting this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares that the public commissions, boards and councils and the other public agencies in this State exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business. It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly. The people of this State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.”

These digital devices make it too easy for illegal, secret, serial meetings or ‘votes’ to occur between council members. It makes it too easy for lobbyists and others to secretly influence deliberations during the council meeting. It is rude for council members to be searching online while the public is talking to them.

Just turn them off.

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In the spirit of transparency, council meetings are required by the Brown Act to be open and public. Using iPADS raises the possibility that they can send messages to each other which are not seen by the public. Even the possibility of that happening should be enough to keep them off the dais.

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The correct answer to THE QUESTION is: “What in the hell are you talking about?”

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THEN when you call ‘em on it they ignore you, act like your speaking Portuguese.
Or use that ‘conspiracy theory’ line or worse, the ‘tin foil hat’ line.
BTW when you hear that term, almost by definition it’s ‘one of them’, it must be in their training or something.

It’s hard to accept on many levels, it’s also verifiable fact.

There are about two dozen communities that have kicked ICLEI out.

We need to do the same.

Join and connect with some response-able citizens at City Hall on the 14th, as we insist on a diologue about this globalist NGO; ICLEI.
We will ask THE QUESTION.
On the fence?
Can’t decide if this crap has merit to you?
Observe how our ‘public servants’ respond, listen to what we have to say, read something on your own.
This subject needs to be on our radar, right now.

Partly so when ABAG/MTC comes to town to pitch their tyranny to City Council you know what’s at stake.

When pressed ICLEI towns will create propaganda about how many warm ‘n fuzzy sounding agencies and alliances this NGO has to add credibility. Or they’ll start with the ‘green house gas’ drivel.

The whole ‘reason’ (excuse) for this enormous oppression is ‘global warming’, or ‘climate change’ as they call it now.

So the decimation of our well being is based on a lie the UN contrived as an instrument of our oppression.

Well if they can perpetuate a lie over and over ’till we beleive it, it should take us less tries to speak the truth.

Oh, and no to I-Pads.
Hello, paper trails, Freedom of Information Act, this is a rogue situation we have going on here.

Dissent when appropriate is our responsibility, the Constitution provides for it.

It is patriotic.

Under the circumstances…
it’s appropriate.

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The ICLEI threat is real, and is happening. No conspiracy, it’s an actual plan by which our politicians want to force upon us.

To those that doubt— read the Handbook, it is available on-line PDF style. A very interesting read. In the Handbook, it shows our politicians how to make seperate agencies with no accountability run by elected officials.

Look it up, UN Agenda 21 is poison, and ICLEI is the way they implement ” The Plan”.

Has anyone at the Press Democrat read the Handbook ? If so, perhaps they agree with The Plan.

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Now what the PD fails to report is that Councilmember Kearney stated in this meeting that his comments on the Deer Creek FEIR were all on his iPad… meaning that he made up his mind BEFORE the public and staff comments on the project. And he was the only one who voted for that mess of an FEIR. I don’t trust Kearney as far as I can throw him.

Some government entities have built their meeting rooms with metal mesh embedded in the walls to block Internet access. Some have installed jamming devices. I would never trust a politician to monitor their Internet access themselves during a meeting.

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