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Published on: 9/26/2007
Last Visited: 8/30/2008
Bob Bliss, RCD board member
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Bliss said, "We never had a board meeting," adding that he only talked to two board members.
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Busy at work trying to suppress public comments at a public meeting, Lashbrook and Bliss sneered at Miller's suggestion, saying it wasn't true.
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In fact, "individual comments may be limited to 5 minutes each by the board president," not Bliss, who isn't the president.
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Bliss and others groaned about the difficulty of this new program.
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Bliss said he liked to sit around, "freelance," and talk to each other (freely, seemed to be his implication).
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Bliss also wanted to make a motion.
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Bliss offered to amend Barstow's motion to charge $1/page for RCD documents "like other boards are doing …"
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Bliss urged the board to pass his $1/page motion immediately.
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Bliss said that it had all been explained, it covered all kinds of information and that "there's a leak in the dam."
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Bliss refused to hear it.
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Bliss: "Now."
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Bliss said the state RCD staffer had said they could go to a dollar.
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Bliss moved for 50 cents "for every page disseminated" and for the same "time-line procedure the county follows."
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Bliss called for the question.
Miller told the RCD board that they hadn't even read their own guidebook (available on the Internet), their agenda items were illegal for lack of adequate description, they had no staff reports, and that a state Public Records Act request was different form a public information request and log."Your whole agenda doesn't meet the Brown Act standards," she said, "and the public has problems with your whole process."
Bliss said Miller had exhausted her two minutes."All those in favor - come on, let's get ‘em," he added.
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Bliss snatched out of Wade's hands, looked at it, rolled his eyes and passed on the Barstow.
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Bliss said it was fine if there was someone to do it better.He said he was "big time pissed off.
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Bliss declared himself a "conservationist."He mentioned his grandchildren and even future great-grandchildren.He said he was "infuriated" watching people get hurt by "vindictive people."