
Francois Giroux Congrats and best of luck! Well deserved appointment.
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"The university intellectuals also play an important role in carrying out the System’s trick. Though they like to fancy themselves independent thinkers, the intellectuals are (allowing for individual exceptions) the most oversocialized, the most conformist, the tamest and most domesticated, the most pampered, dependent, and spineless group in America today. As a result, their impulse to rebel is particularly strong. But, because they are incapable of independent thought, real rebellion is impossible for them. Consequently they are suckers for the System’s trick, which allows them to irritate people and enjoy the illusion of rebelling without ever having to challenge the System’s basic values."
- "System's Neatest Trick" - Ted Kaczynski
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-system-s-neatest-trick.pdf





We knew better and also thought that *we* were better. I’m not so sure about the latter part of this last sentence.
If you pretend otherwise, it’s only yourselves that you are fooling.
Town Staff know very well what your place is…
The discussion group format has been one debated for some time.
In fact discussion groups first came to be I believe when Mr. Martin was a member of council.
Although these meetings were set out to be fact finding missions there is no reason why public questions can not be taken.
One point l like from the 2010-2015 strategic plan penned by Micheal Fox through work by his students by interviewing town citizens (at no cost to tax payers unlike the most recent plan) was eliminating the liaison roles and hold meetings as committee of the whole.
This would allow all councilors to participate in department information sessions and be able to ask questions and not rely on reading a staff prepared report to get information from.
Also opportunity could be provided for public questions and engagement at that time.
Amherst has a committee of the whole system. Maybe investigate how that works.