Jackson County Courthouse, North Entrance, photo by G. Morgan
AGENDA
Commission Chair Tim Guffey opened with statement regarding the early morning fire at the Jackson County Park Marina which killed 8 and injured several. WHNT TV Link about the fire - https://whnt.com/2020/01/27/crews-respond-to-fire-at-jackson-county-park-in-scottsboro/
UPDATE - May God Bless the families of those now deceased in the tragic event early yesterday morning. Action must be accomplished to insure there are inspections of Marina's and Boat docks regarding this issue. WHNT TV report link https://whnt.com/2020/01/27/few-regulations-oversee-condition-of-boat-docks-in-alabama/
REGARDING FIRE PROTECTION AND INSPECTIONS OF MARINAS, SUCH AS THE JACKSON COUNTY PARK MARINA AND THE GOOSEPOND COLONY MARINA
Link to appropriate regulation and law. U.S. Coast Guard and the TVA are part of enforcement of this requirement. "Guidelines for the Safe Operation and Maintenance of Marinas by the National Water Safety Congress." Note Section 5 of the regulation; quote - "5.11 Local fire department personnel should be invited to inspect the facility with special emphasis on access to different areas of the marina in order to fight a fire." A public records request was submitted to the City of Scottsboro Fire Department and Mayor regarding Marina Inspection Records. I inquired about this request at last nights City Council meeting, responsible officials reply was, there have been no inspections of the facility by the Scottsboro Fire Department. Further comment revealed that we have no authority to inspect. nor has there been a request to inspect as suggested by 5.11 in the listed appropriate regulation linked. https://www.usace.army.mil/Portals/2/docs/civilworks/recreation/Water_Safety/tools/guidelines_safe_operation_maint_marinas.pdf?ver=2016-07-25-130937-857
VIDEO
OPEN MEETINGS ISSUE, INTIMIDATION ATTEMPT, WHEN ARE SECRETS, SECRET - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION DISPLAYED IN A PUBLIC MEETING - ATTEMPT TO STOP RECORDING INFORMATION PRESENTED VIA INTIMIDATION AND THREATS - SIMPLE SOLUTION NOT CONSIDERED BY EXTREMIST POLITICIAN, LAZINESS OR WHAT??
SITUATION REPORT ON THIS ISSUE - January 27, 2020 –
Scottsboro, Alabama Jackson County Commission Meeting – Threat by Public
Officials regarding recording of so called Intellectual Property displayed
during a public meeting regarding repairing of County Road 17, agenda item 4 on
the Commission Agenda (There is no indication on the agenda that the
information discussed is proprietary or intellectual property). In the 15 years
I have been attending, recording and videoing government meetings of municipal,
county, state and federal government public meetings, this is the first time I
have heard or seen such shenanigans as displayed by public officials of Jackson
County Alabama. However, there have been several attempts to have secret
meetings and a failure to post meetings as required by law by the Jackson
County Commission over the years, including the current commission.
Chair of the Commission Tim Guffey interrupts
the presentation of the County Engineer in the attempt to stop my videoing of
the "SECRET" plans (so called intellectual property) of the county
and its contractor regarding the repair of County Road 17 and the expenditure
of hundreds of thousands of tax payer dollars. Guffey addresses me personally, which
I reply, then I was called "out of order."
At the break when the
commissioners were going into Executive Session, Chair Guffey makes mention to
the Chief Deputy to remove me if this occurs again. I asked the Chief Deputy
during the break between the Executive Session and reconvening the meeting if
he would have arrested me, he stated I was close to being arrested for
disorderly conduct.
What should have been a
simple matter of obeying the Open Meetings Law of the State of Alabama by
public officials now becomes a threat and intimidation perpetrated by public
officials to stop the recording of public information in the public venue of an
open meeting under the auspices of "intellectual property," a bogus
claim during a public meeting.
If the information
referenced and displayed in the public meeting was intellectual property it
could have been distributed by diagrams to each commissioner and discussed in
the meeting. If members of the public or press wanted to request the
information discussed a Public Records request could be submitted. For the
Chair to act in such a fashion in this instance not only was ridiculous, the
end result was that of a threat and intimidation for attempting to follow the
Alabama Open Meetings Law and replying to a direct comment made to me by the
Commission Chair during the meeting, then directing the Chief Deputy to have me
removed if it occurs again. This attempt at intimidation is typical of ideological
extremists, in this case an elected public official.
Ladies and Gentleman of
Jackson County, know who you are electing before marking your ballot.
VIDEO SEGMENT REGARDING AGENDA ITEM 4
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