By DAVID HAMPTON
Chair
Los Alamos County Transportation Board

Councilor Reagor is conflating his responsibility as an elected representative of the people to prepare himself on the issues to be discussed before Council meetings with County Government’s responsibility to give reasonable notice to the public for meetings and agendas (link Hampton) (link Reagor).

While I agree that we need to bring big items up sooner in their entirety, to both Councilors and the public, Councilor Reagor could have at any time during the 5 months he states that the broadband contract was being looked at by County staff met with the Community Broadband Manager or County Manager to get an idea of what was going on. He has an obligation as one of our elected representatives to familiarize himself with proposals which he knows are being considered before public Council meetings.

While I don’t have a problem with my proposal being changed to 120 hours, which is an even better idea, I used 96 hours because when this has been discussed at prior Council meetings, in which Councilor Reagor was in attendance, with the current 72 hour model in view, it was taken as a given that County Staff tries to give the public an extra day because of the weekend, as well as themselves if they need later on Friday or Saturday to finish the agenda.

My goal was only to get the agenda out on Thursday instead of Friday, which is what is on the agenda in the resolution to be discussed, because we have seen several issues recently where it would have been beneficial for the public to have another day to examine certain unexpected agenda items.