Dissecting The Agenda - April 16, 2025

Dissecting the Agenda – April 16, 2025Welcome to this month’s episode of “Now You See It... Now You Don’t.”

Right out of the gate, Bills and Invoices have been conveniently swept into the Consent Agenda. Translation? Zero discussion. Nada. Unless three brave souls raise their hands to pull them out for public view—spoiler: they won’t. The odds of that happening are somewhere between “never” and “when pigs fly a Piper Cub.” Hiding the ugly truth? That’s the majority’s love language. But don’t worry, dear readers—here at MUDucation, we’re fluent in truth-telling.

Next up: Deed Restriction Theater, starring Jones and Rocco, who continue to treat your property as their personal playpen. Forget clean water—what matters to them is policing your mailbox paint color and fence picket spacing. On this month’s agenda: procedures! process! resolutions! And, of course, a tidy little contract for their pal, Sage.

Now, let’s not forget Rocco’s bedtime story from last month—how only Sage “applied” for the job because “contractors don’t want to work for this District.” Bless his heart. That would be a lie. No one else applied because no one else was invited to apply. No ad. No bid. No transparency. Just two directors helping their friends skip to the front of the taxpayer-funded buffet.

Fun fact: Contracts over $75K/year are supposed to be competitively bid by law. But our dynamic duo? They pirouetted right past that little legal detail.

Then there’s the engineer’s report, which should be called “The Price Is Always Right.” This month’s feature: a $22,000 survey of sidewalks. We hope they’re made of gold. Let’s watch the same usual hands shoot up to approve it with all the scrutiny of a windshield wiper in a hurricane.

Under New Business, we find:

• The Spring Cleanup (nice!).

  
  

• A stealthy little attempt to limit the public’s speaking time. Currently 3 minutes. Soon, you might need a stopwatch and a cattle prod.

  
  

• And, naturally, more efforts to muzzle Director David Flores—because, unlike the others, he actually speaks to the public like they matter.

  
  

And now—drumroll—Agenda Item 7(e): “Discuss monthly public information requests.”Ah yes, a meeting about how much they hate being held accountable. If you caught last month’s highlight reel (a.k.a. “Avila’s Meltdown”), you already know this is just a long-winded prelude to restricting access to public records.

Newsflash for Avila:You can wail, stomp, lie, and pout—but you cannot legally withhold public records. Not without legal consequences that cost the District dearly. And MUDucation is more than ready to publish every last document that comes our way.

Simple solution? Transparency. Radical, we know.

Next, the General Manager’s report. For $56,000 a month, you’d think it would include actual information. Instead? Crickets. Not even a whisper about replacing the GM. Just another behind-closed-doors decision while pretending to honor Inframark’s contract—which requires board approval for staffing changes. More “wink wink, nod nod” governance.

Then comes Agenda Item #9: Parks Committee! A whole separate item, for... reasons. Followed by #10: Committee Assignments & Reports, which—you guessed it—repeats the same public records discussion from item 7(e).

Feeling like they’re trying to hide something yet?

Old Business? None.Attorney’s Report? Silent as a mime at a monastery.

Summary: This board is dysfunctional.But don’t take our word for it—just watch them in action. Or better yet, keep reading MUDucation.org, where we shine a light on the dark corners of District drama.