Room 305 of the Government Office Building in downtown Salisbury is where its City Council normally holds work sessions and sometimes an official meeting. Barrie Tilghman also performs there on occasion. In recent years the events conducted by Louise Smith and her predecessor as the Council’s president and also those done by Tilghman have become notorious for their brusque and curt conduct towards those who dispute or even question their position or view, especially if the speaker is Debbie Campbell or Terry Cohen.
The meeting of the PAC-14 board and City and County officials held on Friday, September 26, was a study in contrast, with John Cannon, the County Council’s president, acting as the chair. Everyone was allowed to speak without once being discourteously interrupted or told not to repeat themselves, and the atmosphere was unusually pleasant, despite a time or two when it was obvious that Barrie Tilghman’s views were falling on deaf ears and she reacted predictably. Let’s hope that she and Ms. Smith appreciate and emulate how Mr. Cannon conducts business without being heavy-handed or rude.
The meeting was a success, too, but I’ll leave that for someone else to report.
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Rumor is that SU has told the City and County to get PAC-14 off the campus and that it no longer is going to be a "Partner"!
ReplyDeleteThank you!! The top four posts (as of this moment) on this blog are EXACTLY what this blog is supposed to be about, IMO, and the reason so many people read multiple times a day.
ReplyDeleteThe back and forth, name-calling, childish partisan back and forth that has innundated this site has made it nearly unreadable to some. If has echoed the most strident right-wing web sites and talking points, and has more resembled a RNC sponsored site than a community news source.
(Like the "Joe versus the Fire Fighters BS of a year ago, only with less informed commenters.)
Please keep the SALISBURY in SBYnews, and leave the national political arm-chair partisan punditry to the loads of other people whose blogs go unread.
Stick with the basics Joe. You and your staff are good at it
What did you expect? John Cannon is a gentleman while Louise Smith is a, ummm well she's a liar.
ReplyDeleteYou got that right 4:04 and come next April we can perhaps find someone who will conduct city council meetings in the manner they should be conducted - without malice or prejudice toward anyone.
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Joe: I didn't know you had a staff? As 4:03 seems to think you have.
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Quite a contrast to the 3 city council members that don't have time to spend on the real issues and have successfully managed to bully through a time limit on discussing the city's and the citizen's business. Louise, Gary and Shamie--you are a disgrace and an insult to your constituents. The Mayor too. You all need to take a lesson from Mr. Cannon in that regard. Better yet, you all need to retire from public service. That one act (of the 4 of you retiring from public service)would go down as your most important contribution.
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