TheSacNews.com: Tuesday, January 12, 2010

How bad did the Sac City Government not want the public to know about the Mediacom agreement in 2006?

Response to "Charlene"

In TheSacNews.com piece, "It turns out, Jim Johnston was kind of a scumbag in 2006 too" We learned that Jim Johnston took a 10 page ordinance entering into the franchise agreement with Mediacom that the public didn't know the city council was about to vote on (unless they individually went down to the city office and endured a little paranoid, angry questioning to find out,) and moved to waive the second and third readings of that ordinance.

Today, (January 21, 2010,) I, (Curtis Bloes,) went to the Sac City Library to see what the Sac Sun, (you know, the "official newspaper") had to say about the 15 year 10-page ordinance that Jim Johnston apparently thought it was appropriate to not give a second look.

Because of the way that our public figures are in the habit of sneaking into the libray and selectively tearing out bits of embarrassing facts about them from their Sac Sun collection, I wasn't really expecting to find anything.

What I did find answered the question of why no-one has bothered. This is the beginning and the end of what I found published in the October 31, 2006 Sac Sun regarding the topic:

"The council approved an or-
dinance giving Mediacom the
cable franchise."

!!??

Read it again, you have enough time.

Honestly, are you surprised that you never heard of this? Even now sitting councilman Jim Frederick admitted on December 28, 2009 that he didn't know the agreement stretched all the way out to the year 2021.

The Sac City Council pays the Sac Sun thousands of dollars per year to publish their legal notices. As recently as this week, (January 11, 2010) they are on video basically asking the editor of that paper write what amounts to a newsvertisement for them to find interested parties to participate in the Community Gardens. That casual act of our government being in control of the paper's message leads me to question how the conversation that led to the above still-birth of a news story went must have gone when no cameras were running.

It's too bad (for us) that the cold hard eye of the camera wasn't scrutinizing the Fiegenschuh office in 2006.

I wonder if we'll have flying cars before this thing expires?

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January 11, 2010 Sac City Council Call to Order

2010 Sac City Council and Government Attendance

Jim Johnston 2 of 2
Brian Muska 1 of 2
Administrator Adam Ledford 2 of 2
Mayor Barb Powell 1 of 2
Bill Brenny 2 of 2
Jim Frederick 2 of 2
Nich Frohardt 2 of 2 (1 late)
Clerk Sandy Tellinghuisen 2 of 2

Also attending:
Sac City Police Chief John Thomsen
City Employee "Danny"
Curtis Bloes (TSN)
Dale Wegner (SS)

Minutes of the December 28, 2009 Sac City Coucil Meeting were approved without protest.

The Evening's agenda was approved without change.

Claims were approved without comment.

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