I contacted the Attorney General's office in the Sunshine Law division about people being prevented from attending the meeting on Tuesday because of room capacity. The answer came back that all public meetings must allow all the public to view and attend the public meeting. The sign on the outside door of the chamber read: RE: Occupancy Limit in Council Chambers Seating Capacity For Audience Area: 61
The city council meeting was packed Tuesday evening and, sadly, five people were not even allowed into the public meeting and not allowed to participate because the room reached capacity. Four members of the Open Access Petition group spoke including the group's attorney, Paul Kidwell.
Cartoon videos I've created have been circulating the past few days on Facebook. Our latest video about rumors coming out of City offices: Here are links to the original four videos:
Here's the form: https://www.consumer.ago.mo.gov/ Many have asked us if there is anything they can do about the current situation of having to use City Cable. The only real place to file a complaint is on the AGO's Consumer Complaint department. I pay for Cable Internet service on the north side of town and City Cable is the only broadband service available; so I filed a complaint on the form.
Dear Cable Internet Customer, [If you do not get your Internet service over the "City Cable" network in Poplar Bluff you do not have to worry about this announcement.] The City now requires you to call in to the City Cable office (686-8020) or you will NOT be transitioned to their service and will be disconnected on May 9. In cooperation with the Council's decision, we provided City Cable with the list of customers to be transitioned over to their system on or before May 9. However, in contradiction to what Bill Bach, David Presley and Michael Pry agreed to almost a month ago, City Cable has decided to change the rules on us once again.
