City Council holds its meetings in a place you can't get to on transit. So how do people in South Lake get to pubic hearings if they don’t drive, for whatever reason, usually because it costs too much? One could take a taxi from the nearest transit stop at the Y but it would cost a lot, both ways.
Then the hearing room is full of people who are anti-tax and
angry. During public comments one after another they stand in front of the
council saying why they oppose the tax while the rest of the audience glares.
I wouldn't get up and speak in favor of the tax in that
environment, kudos to the one who did, Nick Teal. Two others at the 6/18 meeting seemed to want to
support the tax; but in front of that crowd on camera, they mumbled and seemed
to be editing their own speech as they spoke, probably considering the room
full of hostile people watching them.
I want to know why the City Council meets in a place that is
almost impossible to get to if you are a working class person working and have
no car.
A large part of the population are left out of the debate. I know there's Zooooooom.
I read somewhere that when Marjorie Springmeyer and the Johnson
family donated to South Lake Tahoe the land that is now used for government
offices, it was with one mandate: The land was to be used to make it easier for
all the people to get to meetings and participate in local government.
Yet City Council meetings take place where a large part of the population would struggle to get to them.
Not by accident, at all
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