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Nobody Requested It. They Are Reading It Anyway.
This morning the commissioners will read an Indigenous Peoples’ Day proclamation that no one requested, and that last year no one showed up to receive. A counter-proclamation sent September 9 is still unanswered. The reading shames the taxpayers who fund it, then clears the ground for the grants and land deals that follow.
Nobody asked
County Administrator Todd Mielke explained the rule a month ago. Proclamations get on the agenda because somebody asks. A club. A nonprofit. County employees who want a diaper drive. Staff writes it up and puts it on the calendar.
Asked at a commissioners’…
The skinny
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