Comments on: To Meet or Not to Meet? https://boiseguardian.com/2005/09/21/to-meet-or-not-to-meet/ A different slant on the news. Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: crim445 https://boiseguardian.com/2005/09/21/to-meet-or-not-to-meet/#comment-154 Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:12:34 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=114#comment-154 Once again, what kind of legal advice are the Commissioners receiving from their 12 attorneys and Ted Argyle in the civil division of the prosecuting attorneys’ office? These Commissioners have been around long enough that they should know what consitutes a public meeting and if they don’t, then their lawyers (averaging at least $50K a year for each) should have advised them. The civil division’s only obligation is providing legal advice and services to the county, and primarily to the Commissioners on issues such as public meeting laws. Why aren’t the Commissioners calling their attorneys? Do they not respect their advice?

Ed note–We can only guess who was on the other end of Yazguirre’s cell phone(photo above), but he drove away from the meeting when he hung up.

]]> By: Tam https://boiseguardian.com/2005/09/21/to-meet-or-not-to-meet/#comment-153 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:28:45 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=114#comment-153 While one commissioner and a Sheriff do not necessarily a public meeting make, IF the purpose of the conversation is to provide information which will be necessary to a later action by the full commission, this is certainly an ex parte contact. Elected Officials are frequently counseled against such contacts because of the inadvertent ease with which they happen if caution is not exercised. That not withstanding, Ada and other surrounding Counties are in desperate need of a detox center, as well as residential, long term treatement facilities. Nearly everyone incarcerated at the current time is there because of an addiction, first and foremost. WE ALL pay for this social problem at the current time. I am fairly appalled, if not surprised, at Nancy Merrill’s comment….as though Eagle is not impacted by the problem that exists. I understand statutory and political toes will likely be stepped on with this one, but a facility NEEDS to happen, sooner than later. As for whether the jail is a good spot. I think that while those in active addiction have impaired reasoning, the first time ACSO uses information gained by admission to the detox center to make an arrest….the center loses all credibility and ceases to be of utility to those who need it so badly. Those who question the need should log-on to Adasheriff.org and go to the jail roster…look into the eyes of people who need this detox center. I hesitate to say that those who know addiction would not quibble about who pays for what.

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