This may surely be the single most damaging statement that was said
about how the Commission made its decision! Read it, and read it
closely, then spin-spin-away!
Ron Ozment states,
But I would just like again to whether this is
the proper time to address this, considering what I've stated about what
I think is a lack of proper public process.
Van Gytenbeek reply:
Very quickly, I’d just like to say I do, I
think Ron’s point is a good one, and had this not just been blowing
along continually for two years, I wouldn’t have felt good about asking
if there was a proper legal way to bring it forward. And I assume, in
making this motion that those people who were opposed to it before, are
just as opposed to it as they were
You can say what you want about this process, and put whatever spin
you want to on it, but when Commissioner Van Gytenbeek said:
"I wouldn't have felt good about asking if there was a proper legal way
to bring it forward."
That said it all!!! You really don't have be an
attorney, or have a law degree to understand what he said!
This was draft #5, if it means something else; it sure would have been
edited long before now!
Now what do you suppose that means?
Lets not forget, the Commission had brought up not one, but two
separate moratoriums for a vote that was not published in their agenda.
There were 2 completely different proposals that came up for a vote that
were not made public, and were done without pubic notice or comment. One
was for a moratorium from April 1 of this year until March 31, 2009
which was voted down. And then a "second moratorium" was brought to the
floor for a vote, and that one passed. That's "two separate" moratoriums
that the public was not informed or notified of.
No public comment was taken on either issue before the Commission acted.
Neither of those 2 proposals were in the proposed "2004-05 rule package"
that were sent to the Commission for their approval.
Once the general public reads these minutes, I believe there will be
outrage about how this process was allowed to happen. The issue about
saving WSR will become second place to the issue about how an
inappropriate process was allowed to proceed, and how the 2 proposed
moratoriums managed to slip by the legal process.
When government circumvents due process and law and procedure order,
people become quickly outraged. There are only a few people on fishing
boards, and look what already happen here. I believe that once this
issue becomes known to the public, we will see that happen there also.
It doesn't matter if you were for WSR or not, this issue has become much
bigger than just that.
The transcript speaks for itself.
Hairlip
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