The June 18 meeting is another marathon session of 2 hours and 15 minutes, however, I’m beginning to see the benefit for Pearson to doggedly continue with these self-indulgent morality tales at the beginning of each meeting: First, it allows him to believe he is a wise, but benevolent, leader of the community, imparting wisdom …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes 6/18/18 Episode 10: Wreck Creation
When a meeting clocks in at a grueling 2 hours and 27 minutes, the sanctimonious dime store philosophizing from the likes of John Pearson becomes that much more insufferable. Pity the poor staff members, who, in spite of being compensated for this waste of their time with your tax dollars, are forced to stick around …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes 6/4/18 Episode 9: Arrested Development
I'm somewhat late putting this episode of meeting notes up because the meetings themselves were not posted on the website. My understanding is that there was a technical difficulty with the hosting site. The good news is that the fix created a brand new site, with videos that are also posted to YouTube, which makes …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes 5/21/18 Episode 8: Dance into the Fire
If someone else were Chairman of the Board in Upper Providence, I would suspect that the reason for the length of the Board of Supervisors’ meetings is to deliberately cause residents to lose interest in the proceedings. As readers are probably aware, there is little to no independent press coverage of these local municipal Board …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes 5/7/18 Episode 7: The Peter Principle
Our story so far: The Ambulance issue in Upper Providence has been going on for well over two years at this point. For recaps of the discussion points see here, here and here. The issue sparked some fireworks each time, most recently at the last Board meeting when the Board voted in favor of what …
I arrived at the 4/16 Township meeting a couple minutes late on purpose: I specifically wanted to avoid John Pearson’s tedious recitation of his handpicked passage from Chicken Soup for the Soul. While I thankfully missed Pearson’s pocket sermon, unfortunately, the meeting room and the reception area outside the meeting room were absolutely packed. I …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes 4/16/18 Episode 6: EMERGENCY!
I attended the April 4 special meeting in person, but even so, there were things I missed, or comments I did not note at the beginning of the meeting that had special relevance to the overall presentation and the conclusions about that presentation, so rewatching it online was instructive. If you haven't watched, and you …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes Episode 5: Special Fire & Emergency Services Meeting
The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors on April 2, 2018, has no icon on the Township’s web page, but the video is indeed up. It appears that I was the first one to watch it. As usual, no embedding is possible so video can be found HERE. This meeting clocks in at a …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes Episode 4: Love Thy Neighbor
In spite of all appearances, Democrats don’t really care about President Trump’s alleged affair with Stormy Daniels. Sure the salacious details and the painful daily drip of information compounded by Trump’s increasingly implausible denials make for a sordid and compelling media circus, but that’s not why Stormy Daniels is suddenly the darling of the left. …
I’ve got no post for 2/20/18 meeting, but I would like to note that Supervisor Phil Barker’s rejoinder to the Democrats’ “kicking the can down the road” talking point on fire and EMS made at the 2/5 meeting is definitely worth a watch. He even brings props. It begins at 1:47 in the 2/20/18 meeting …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes 3/5/18 Episode 2: Campaign Trail Promise Fulfillment Season
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