Thursday, February 28, 4:30 p.m., Port Office
— from Anthony Simpson for Port of Orcas —
The commission will meet in executive session to evaluate the qualifications of an applicant for public employment AND to review the performance of a public employee for a time not to exceed ___ minutes and reconvene in public session no later than ___.
Before convening in executive session, the presiding officer of a governing body shall publicly announce the purpose for excluding the public from the meeting place, and the time when the executive session will be concluded. The executive session may be extended to a stated later time by announcement of the presiding officer.
NEW BUSINESS — TBD
UNFINISHED BUSINESS — TBD
So… is this the new Port “Special Meeting” protocol? – the interested public is supposed to get there on time, only to be shooed out the door a minute or two later for an executive session and expected to stand outside in the cold or sit in our cars, with no general indication given of what will be discussed?
The agenda is on the website, though it’s not of much help in this instance:
https://www.portoforcas.com/dev/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2019-02-28-Agenda.pdf
A suggestion to the new Port commission chair, to demonstrate good public relations protocol: Please post a written estimated time of return on the Port door, in case we show up at 4:32 and miss the minutes. Please don’t leave if you finish earlier than you tell us to return. Try to show some respect for people who have been showing up every meeting and following the whole Master Plan “debacle”, as you yourself called it in a recent meeting.
Is it a valid notice of Port meeting if it contains blanks? If not, that would leave any decisions made there invalid.