Agendas
There are a lot a questions about agendas in Starrucca Borough these days. Both the kind printed on paper and the kind in the hearts of men.
Below are the the agendas for the last 6 months of meetings of the Starrucca Borough Council. Note the variation in specificity and the use of “other business that may come before the council” Jan 10th, and “Miscellaneous New Business not listed in agenda”. I’m not a lawyer, but pretty sure even ‘most’ lawyers would agree that those statements are comparable. Additionally when PA State Association of Boroughs was questioned about this they sited the PA State legislature agenda which had similar language.
I have a few questions:
Did the solicitor review this agenda prior to being called by Darl Haynes? What about the May 2nd Agenda?
Why would Darl Haynes a council member(or any of the other council members who ‘objected’) who was provided the agenda prior to the meeting not raise their objection to this language in sufficient time to make adjustments?
Why is Darl Haynes calling the solicitor at the communities expense instead of communicating with the council president to resolve issues with the agenda? Seems like the most expensive and confrontational way to accomplish this action.
Why don't the Council members in question want to attend council meetings as is their duty as elected officials. Why? What additional things are they hiding? (of note in the last month two road grants have come to light that “no one knew about” worth well over $100,000 in total.)
Is the solicitor is working with the council members in question to “clean up their act”?
Was the solicitor involved in writing the Jan 10th advertisement and if so, what about his legal opinion changed since then?
If the solicitor is compelled by contract to attend council meetings (motion form Feb 7th put forward by Keith Payne) then why is he not attending these scheduled meetings? March 7th, March 14th, March 15th, May 2nd, May 9th. (oh wait, he did attend the March 15th meeting. Scheduled for 1:45 pm when several council members AND the mayor AND the secretary AND the public could not attend, what exactly was different about that meeting?).
Below are a sampling of posted agendas, many containing no agenda at all, or “other business” or “conduct other such business as comes before the council” etc. (Bonus, was Demi Travis Secretary when the Dec 31st meeting advertisement was printed?)
