It's Tuesday, so news of the SLC Board of Legislators has filtered out to the public. The most anticipated part of the agenda came and went with at whimper, as the Nichols resolution for open communication was tabled after only a few short minutes and a lengthy amendment from Peter Fiztrandolph. Now talk is that it might never be served from the table.
Most of the discussion forms around knuckle raps for Pat Turbett, as if Board members were parochial teaching nuns, and the Board's ineptness in addressing any issues beyond how they hate each other.
But the Board isn't inept. And they don't vote out of their personal feelings. Look at the agenda. They addressed 27 issues. Twenty-five passed unanimously. One passed with one dissension. And one was tabled for more information. Government and services still operate. Nothing has been shut down.
With that said, there is a mean-spiritedness. Too often, arguments go beyond a passionate stage and into a hateful one. Personal gripes are apparent. But this is not the primary tone of the Board nor should it be the focus.
Coincidentally, the administrator brought forward a future consideration about having cameras in the chambers to webcast the meetings or have them shown through local cable access. Now that would give residents of St. Law. Co. a completely different view of the Board, independent of a handful of reporters and their editors.
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