{"id":2876,"date":"2008-04-25T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/another-reason-npc-meetings-should-be-open-to-the-public\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T09:00:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:00:51","slug":"another-reason-npc-meetings-should-be-open-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/another-reason-npc-meetings-should-be-open-to-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason NPC meetings should be open to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1394\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So when he packed it in this week, we also knew something was wrong at the Niagara Parks Commission. But what? Gale, bound by a confidentiality agreement signed by all Parks commissioners, says he can&#8217;t tell anyone. Jim Williams, the commission chairman, says Gale took issue with an unnamed business decision and quit to make a point.<\/p>\n<p>So where does that leave us? In the dark, mostly, which is pretty much the norm when the Niagara Parks Commission is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Gale&#8217;s resignation, shrouded in secrecy and all attempts to find out answers stonewalled, is yet another reason &#8211; as if one was needed &#8211; for Parks commission meetings to be held in public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: &#8230; So when he packed it in this week, we also knew something was wrong at the Niagara Parks Commission. But what? Gale, bound by a confidentiality agreement signed by all Parks commissioners, says he can&#8217;t tell anyone. Jim Williams, the commission chairman, says Gale took issue with an unnamed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}