It all starts HERE>>>>

Ok so whats this all about? I'm not a political anything except maybe student. i live in soldotna and love it here. I am interested in our local politics and whats happening in our community. I started off trying to find a meeting to attend and found that was a trick in itself. Someone needs to consolidate all the meeting times and dates and purposes into one site or collection of some sort. that being said... i have learned that for every local meeting i will have to hunt its time and place out for myself. I will let all know who are interested on my blog.

so I started the new year already behind because the first meeting i decided to attend was the borough assembly meeting Jan 5 2010. i was told it started at 6:30 and so i showed up at 6:15 to ensure a good seat. the meeting actually started at 7pm and had it not been for the saints football team (Go Saints) receiving a recognition there would have been seating to spare.

so what did I get from the meeting of the borough Assembly? there were three main events....

- first was the beluga habitat issue

this was a compact that was signed and endorsed by the assembly and due to public outcry was brought back before the assembly for reconsideration. what i saw was a lack of thought put into thier original vote from the younger assembly members. one even stated that he had not fully understood the compact. another just flip flopped and crumbled like coffee cake under public testimony. Assemblyman superman made a distasteful comment that the people who showed up to give testimony were unlikely representing the view of the majority on the kenai.

the simple fact was that the supporters of resending the signing of the compact showed up and spoke out in an intelegent and factual manner. whether you agreed or not with mr. knutson or the crew of tesoro the fact is they made sense. the only ones to speak agianst resending the signing gave weak arguments as to why. I guess we're all supposed to just go along with mass media and buy into any hype hook line and sinker.

in conclusion if anyone would have brought an intelligent rebuttal to the table the signing might of stood a chance but this was a clear KO in favor of the resending.