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This- is Mississauga.
Sometimes you just skid your toes into something so smushy that your only logical response is a silly one. Here goes.
Yo! Dudes! Was slummin' it trying out my board at one of 'Sauga's Waterfront Parks, and hopin' to avoid any Pay-n-Display parking meters ya know, when I figured ah what the heck, why not cruise over to The Big Yellow, drop down a couple FOI's and maybe pick up a dog licence for my cat. So. Like.
Oh. Wow. Like. There I was at the Clerk's office, ya know and I'm-like I see this big wad'a stapled papers that can --like-- only mean it's the Agenda for tomorrow's Council meeting, eh?
So like. I grab it, ya know and like --
WHOA DUDE!
Check it out! Correspondence Item I-2.
Click here for larger version of the letter.
Letter from Jim Grieve --you know-- the Main Dude at the Peel District School Board writin' to The Corporation --and like, he's complainin' that The Corporation had "very recently adopted a resolution not to include school board representatives on the Mississauga Library Board." Like he even bolded "not" --Grieve was that burned.
Yeah, really. Mr. Grieve like goes:
"We were surprised to learn that City Council made this decision a full two months after the name of the representative appointed by the Peel District School Board was submitted to the City Clerk for confirmation by Council."
And get --like-- this cool part.
Mr. Grieve writin':
"It is the opinion of this Board, that if the Council intended to change its process, we should have been notified well before we undertook our process to appoint a Peel District School Board representative."
"notified"???? HAHAHAHAHA... *snork*
It gets better. Check out The Corporation's response to the Head-Peeler.
Click here for a larger version of The Corporation's letter of sympathy to the Peel Board Director of Education.
"Thank you for your letter"... "confirm that Council, at its meeting held on February 14, 2007, adopted" ya da etc blah blah ya da...boom badda boom and there's more.
Like, check this out for sincerity:
"Council indicated that they would be pleased if Barbara O'Neil would submit an application form to the City of Mississauga and apply for one of the citizen positions. Council is going through the interview process this month and would be able to accomodate Ms. O'Neil for an interview at a time convenient to her."
Seriously though...
The most amazing part? I was paying really close attention to the February 14th Council meeting. That was the one about Pay-and-Display parking.
But I musta dozed off at the wheel, have to admit it. I even checked the February 14, 2007 minutes and sure enough, there was that resolution, embedded right there among all the myriad of other resolutions like some tenacious-vexatious protracted hemorrhoid --and I hadn't noticed! It must'a slipped by me during a "short read" near the end or something because had I noticed that Peel Board Reps could be potentially blocked from the Mississauga Library Board, I'd have squawked earlier.
See?
For a large version of the entire sheet, click here.
But the fact is, (and this IS a fact), I'm slow-on-the-take when it comes to political stuff. It's just all so difficult to comprehend --and I mean all the way up for Food Chain.
I don't know why there was all this fuss-debate and Angst at the clause-by-clause Standing Committee deliberations on Bill 130 about "closed meetings". You can easily "close" a meeting in an open one even in front of Rogers Television just by short readin' all the resolutions.
Ya. "Short read". Looks like this.
"Items 1 through 25. Anyone Opposed? Carried."
"Items 26 through 75. Anyone Opposed? Carried."
"Items 76 through 527. Anyone Opposed? Carried."
"Items 528 through 13,015. Anyone Opposed? Carried."
"Items 13,015 through 56,019,322. Anyone Opposed? Carried."
This is the second time it's happened that something important slipped by me (and those are just the two I know about).
Get this. There are at least two Councillors who were on the Peel Board of Education in a former life and they should'a slapped their tails about this. Me, I got an excuse for missing this non-notification Library thing. I'm a Rube. One of those former Peeler trustees should'a played a little DEEfense here, for Peel students.
Hmmmm....(she scans The Corporation's letter) "interview process this month". Maybe I'll volunteer for the Mississauga Library Board. I mean I can read without moving my lips most of the time.
Signed,
The (Short Reads = Closed Meetings) Mississauga Muse
"We must employ every possible tactic to dissuade those who try to silence us with fear"
---The Mississauga News Editorial (2007-03-24)
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