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Guest opinion: Woodside’s ethics decision raises questions about accountability
“Personnel matter.” That was the label. Two words, last item on the agenda, last meeting before summer recess on July 28. Nothing in it told a resident that the Woodside Town Council was about to resolve the only sustained finding against a sitting councilmember for disclosing a colleague’s confidential closed-session concerns in an investigation that took four months and used considerable public money.
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“Personnel matter.” That was the label. Two words, last item on the agenda, last meeting before summer recess on July 28. Nothing in it told a resident that the Woodside Town Council was about to resolve the only sustained finding against a sitting councilmember for disclosing a colleague’s confidential closed-session concerns in an investigation that took four months and used considerable public money.
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According to The Almanac’s linked report, Guest opinion: Woodside’s ethics decision raises questions about accountability, “Personnel matter.” That was the label. Two words, last item on the agenda, last meeting before summer recess on July 28. Nothing in it told a resident that the Woodside Town Council was about to resolve the only sustained finding against a sitting councilmember for disclosing a colleague’s confidential closed-session concerns in an investigation that took four months and used considerable public money.
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