The pattern is getting harder to ignore.
Citizens fill out speaker slips according to the rules, hand them in properly… and then watch their names disappear while the Board skips straight past agenda items they signed up for.
Watch it unfold here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQcpXJEx5rA
Multiple speakers called it out live:
- “I turned in public comment form for that… item number 53.”
- “I filled out a form. This lady has it right there… item number 56. But I see I’ve been successfully censored.”
- “I had this problem once before… Where did they go? Some seem to change and others simply disappear.”
Even when slips were photographed being handed in, confusion and delays followed. One citizen had to ask if his slip “fell on the floor.”
This isn’t incompetence. It’s a consistent pattern of shutting down public voices on agenda items the Board doesn’t want to hear. They preach “transparency” and “public participation” while making sure inconvenient comments never see the light of day.
The people are showing up. They’re following the process. Yet their voices are being erased in real time.
How many more meetings will it take before this stops?
The public will not be silenced. We see the game. We’re documenting every skipped name and every “lost” slip.
Times have changed. The more they try to suppress us, the louder and more organized we become.
Share this video. Demand every properly submitted speaker slip be honored — no more games, no more disappearing voices.
It is Our Duty.
Stay vigilant.
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