We are hoping that many people will attend the Board meeting on Tuesday, September 4th at 9:30am at the Courthouse in Duluth. It is important that citizens (voters) voice their concerns with respect to the recent actions by the Board regarding the sexual harassment investigations.
It's even more important to have observers at the Board workshops than at County Board meetings. The regular meetings are taped and shown on public television. The Board workshops are SUMMARIZED in minutes, but some Board members are regularly disrespectful to their staff and one another in these sessions, knowing that there is no record of their behavior.
Today at the Budget Workshop, after a question from a commissioner about which jail needed improvements to comply with ADA (Americans with Disabilities), Commissioner Mike Forsman from Ely laughed and said, "that's the sexual harassment jail."
It appears to me that there is a concerted effort on the part of some commissioners to minimize the sexual harassment issue and turn it into crude humor.
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We are hoping that many people will attend the Board meeting on Tuesday, September 4th at 9:30am at the Courthouse in Duluth. It is important that citizens (voters) voice their concerns with respect to the recent actions by the Board regarding the sexual harassment investigations.
It's even more important to have observers at the Board workshops than at County Board meetings. The regular meetings are taped and shown on public television. The Board workshops are SUMMARIZED in minutes, but some Board members are regularly disrespectful to their staff and one another in these sessions, knowing that there is no record of their behavior.
Today at the Budget Workshop, after a question from a commissioner about which jail needed improvements to comply with ADA (Americans with Disabilities), Commissioner Mike Forsman from Ely laughed and said, "that's the sexual harassment jail."
It appears to me that there is a concerted effort on the part of some commissioners to minimize the sexual harassment issue and turn it into crude humor.
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