Chicanery behind closed doors

Once again tonight, they will be going into the seemingly obligatory executive session to discuss “the sale of property at competitive bidding”!!!

 

Now, according to past Ohio Attorneys General:

“a public body may adjourn into executive session to consider the sale of real or personal property by competitive bid ONLY if disclosure of the information would result in a competitive advantage to the a person whose personal, private interest is adverse to the general public interest. No member of a public body may use this exception as subterfuge to provide covert information to prospective buyers or sellers.”

 

So, if they haven’t even decided to sell a property yet, how could discussing it in the open possibly give one person a “competitive advantage???  Only discussing it in PRIVATE and LEAKING information could do that…or discussing it in private with a possible single buyer or a third party. 

Edited by Mike_Presta - Dec 04 2012 at 8:24am

"Now, according to past Ohio Attorneys General:

“a public body may adjourn into executive session to consider the sale of real or personal property by competitive bid ONLY if disclosure of the information would result in a competitive advantage to the a person whose personal, private interest is adverse to the general public interest. No member of a public body may use this exception as subterfuge to provide covert information to prospective buyers or sellers.”

Be nice to pick up the phone, call the Atty. General's office and fax them the agenda item for their info and inform them that the discussion will be held out of public view. Perhaps if they receive the info. early enough, they can come down from Columbus and observe also. OR......maybe they won't care at all to enforce their laws.

over the hill wrote: attorney general's office can't help us here. You would need to handle this with a private attorney. In other words bring suit against city council. Don't we have a couple of attorneys on council? HMMM......

If you are correct over the hill, as citizens, we will never get all on the same page, much less contribute to the attorney's fees to represent us against the city. The two attorneys on council would be indicting themselves if they intervened on behalf of the people. They are willing participants in the "executive session/hidden agenda" program. They are part of the problem and not the solution.

Mike stated the source being the Attorney General. If there is a violation of their laws, wouldn't they be the slight bit interested?

The attorneys on council,you would think, would caution them in the folly of their ways. OOPS, There I go again ,thinking!