02/17/19

John Gaccione

On Valentine’s Day the faithful launched a new assault aimed at the KPPCSD board. The folks at Headquarters have labeled it the “Foundational Values” campaign. 

The gist of the new assault is the current board is chipping away at our community’s foundational values of meaningful community input into the board’s deliberations on issues that are central to our safety and well being. 

Besides removing every avenue of community input, the current board exhibits an alarming lack of transparency and the appearance of maintaining secret agendas. It’s just so scandalous!

To be clear, nothing like that ever took place during the so-called “old guard” Welsh and Toombs boards of long past! Can I get an amen?

While making the case for our community’s foundational values never hesitate to state your many years as a Kensington citizen. Disregard doing so alerts the newer residents you may be enjoying far lower property taxes as a result of Prop 13. It’s just one of the perks of being an “old guard” citizen.

There is a more immediate issue that cries out for your attention. That issue is the current KPPCSD board’s lack of a plan to get a permanent chief of police hired. 

Since we have lost considerable influence on the current KPPCSD board, community input has become one of our main avenues of influence. We control one seat on the board and can use that seat as our base to disrupt and obfuscate. But we lack a majority vote on issues dear to the faithful.

The bedrock of foundational values is holding on to a locally controlled independent police department. With a compliant chief and the malleable nature of a small independent police department, long time citizens can shape the department to serve their own exclusive political advantage and personal needs. 

So it is essential that we need to have a hand in the selection process of the chief of police. Despite what either the general manager or his hired consultants think the faithful know what’s needed. One never knows when a clandestine CLETS search or a threat of an arrest of a political opponent can become a useful tool. 

And what better example of our “foundational values” can there be than the “Kensington Independent” mailers? Boy howdy!

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”  (Mark Twain)

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