This whole issue is a bit distressing because it is
hard enough to find the volunteers in town without the restrictions of contact
with other residents due to an administrative or
economic interest. I have a brother-in-law that is a councilor
who is also a local businessman, another brother-in-law that is a regional CAT
representative. I had a planning commission member call
up and is ready to resign because he is a self-employed building designer.
I also have to laugh at the "relative" line item -- I'm from a fairly large
family -- 10 spaces doesn't cut it!
We need to do something to make sure we don't lose
all of our volunteers on the council and planning commission. The hard
part is that it is very difficult to get volunteers to serve on these thankless
jobs and how do we operate if we cannot get any one? Does LOC have a plan
on how we are all going to address this issue? I realize from the emails
that LOC tried to make changes before it was put into law, but what is the plan
now?
My other gripe with this process is that we are all
supposed to get the volunteers to fill out these forms and so far no one has
received them. We are all warned of major penalties if they aren't
filed by April 15 -- when do they plan on sending these to
everyone?
Kathryn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:29
AM
Subject: [occma] ANNUAL VERIFIED
STATEMENT OF ECONOMIC INTEREST
Michele
Young,
Thanks for getting
the ball rolling on the protest of the new ethics commission rules, we have
also had resignations submitted and others that are waiting to see the final
requirements but that have already written there resignation letters. We used
the letter written by your Planning Commission Chair as template and went from
there. No responses yet but the e-mails just went out yesterday. I will keep
you posted as information comes in. The Sad thing is that likely it will be
too late to keep from losing some good people.
Mark E. Reagles
City of Rogue River
PO Box 1137
133 Broadway
Rogue River, Oregon 97537
Ph (541) 582-4401 fax (541) 582-0937
e-mail mreagles@ci.rogue-river.or.us