Dear Editor:
As the parents a of future Special Olympics athlete, and as residents of Jefferson City, we applaud the efforts being made to win the "Training for Life" site, here, over another in Columbia. And we, equally, applaud the 15-plus acre land donation by Land Investments.
However, we are concerned about the Jefferson City Council's action to approve a request from the Chamber of Commerce "to fund the $300,000 cost of extending sewer service to the [donated] site" (quarry located on Christy Lane and Highway 179), in a closed session on Oct. 20, 2014.
Read that part again - in a closed session. In compliance with the Sunshine Law, what was the documented reason for the closed session?
Inquiring with our councilman, we learned the funds secretly "approved" would come from the 2015 city budget from the "sewer" fund. Our research of the budget indicates a line-item entry of $2,000,000 for "wastewater." If this is the correct line item, it represents 15 percent of the total. Which leads us to ask what projects will not be performed, because of this secretly approved request?
We have enough government by secrecy at the federal level. We don't need it in our town, too.
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