On Tuesday, Antioch City Councilman Tony Tiscareno announced he was boycotting tonight’s closed session meeting of the city council.
Been on the council for six years, been involved in politics 25-years, Tiscareno said he has not seen anything like this in terms of closed session items being released to the public on multiple occasions prior to the meetings being held.
He did say he would show up for the City Council meeting and budget discussion.
In a statement issued just after 4:00 pm, Tisacreno said the following:
“It has come to my attention that information discussed at our April 11, 2017 City Council closed session meeting has been revealed to certain individual(s) that are not part of the body that participates in our close session agenized matters. While I fully understand that some information can be unintentionally leaked, I am very concerned and irritated that information considered confidential is being put out to the public before it’s properly approved to do so. A citizen of Antioch who also has to adhere to the same Brown Act rules as my fellow council mates and I brought this disturbing issue to my attention.
Therefore, because of my concern and discomfort in participating in closed session meetings, I am making a conscientious decision to not participate in tonight’s 4PM close session meeting. I will participate in tonight’s budget session and general council meeting”
He hopes that upon council members receiving Brown Act Training, that this issue will correct itself. He also would not confirm or deny future boycotts.
In March, councilwoman Lori Ogorchock announced she had filed a complaint with the City Attorney that alleges a Brown Act Violation may have occurred prior to the council voting 3-2 to terminate its contract with City Manager Steve Duran.
Ogorchock’s claim is that items from closed session ended up in multiple local media publications and before members of the community.
Ogorchock could not provide details, as the matter is now under investigation, but indicated the situation needed to be investigated.
“I feel that closed door items were leaked out to the public and I feel it’s my duty to make sure that we govern appropriately and within the law,” said Ogorchock.
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Funniest thing I have heard all day.
A whole lot of huff and puff; in the end it does nothing but focus some attention on yourself.
*sigh*
Can we actually move on to issues that take what is effectively a town already ran into the ground and make it a place that people are not ashamed to:
a) say they are from
b) walk outside their doors during the day much less night
This is starting to look and smell like high school drama. Vote was for change not drama. Address the crime or business and residents will continue to leave en masse.
Seems like Tiscareno was trained very well from King Flimflam Harper. After all, it was Harper that made these so called “boycotts” or rather, being lazy to do the job, very popular to get out of making hard decisions.
That’s a good one. Boycott. I think I want to “boycott” all the criminal ghetto hood rats in Antioch and section 8 abusers by refusing to stand idle calling out their BS every time I get the chance.
I think I will “boycott” my positive attitude for city council because they’re all a bunch of F’n kids wearing clown shoes.
RJB I wouldn’t call any of them kids but 2 of them are adults acting like children. Aren’t these confidential meetings required by law? Seems I heard that before.
Yup. Brown act makes it so that regular meetings must be placed on as an agendized item so the public is aware and given a heads up on what our local government actions and decisions that need be made.
Meetings can be closed session if there is a possibility of a lawsuit or information that needs to be discussed and what transpires may put the city into litigation. There are strict rules on so called closed session meetings. Another thing is that if the public is already aware of what is being discussed it too must be placed as an agendized item despite being closed session, however.
The freedom information act can be used to get information after the meetings, I think.
In this article, Tiscareno is saying that closed sessions are being leaked. Boycotting is not going to fix that. LMAO
In my opinion it’s just lack of leadership and finding a real
Solution instead of taking a break and sitting in the corner.
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