To File or Not to File

Hello Stoton Forward Email List Members!

Many of us found out that the amended Developer's Agreement was signed possibly the night of the June 9th.  We have 30 days to file a court suit on or before July 9th plus or minus a day depending upon how days are counted.  (Below is the email I sent to determine the starting date for the 30 days.)

As you know, Dennis worked on the letter I sent the council and you late today.  The council, mayor and city attorney paid no attention to it as usual.

We now must make a fast decision as to whether we should file a court suit based upon the concepts in Dennis letter and what ever else he comes up with.

I move that Stoughton Forward quickly tries to raise funds for filing a law suit.

I propose this:

STEP 1:  As many of you as possible respond by early tomorrow as to whether you think SF should file a suit.  Don't be concerned at this point that we do not have the $5,000 or so needed to file the suit.  The question is do you think we should file?

STEP 2:  If a number of your think we should file, our lists of people whether they are willing to commit to a pledge of funding and how much they pledge?

STEP 3:   Tally the pledges plus the $2,016 we have in the SFwd. account and see how close we get to $5,000.  Then decide to go or no go with the suit.

All this will have to be done extremely fast.

We can not wait until a week before the deadline and then ask our attorney Dennis Grzezinski to draft and file the law suit.

We should also try to raise money on line from persons and groups outside of Stoughton.

I would like to start the fundraising tomorrow afternoon - Wed. June 24th - if people think we should move forward.

So please try to respond quickly.

My guess, after reading my emails below and their responses, is that they wanted to keep secret when the DA was signed or whether the DA was signed.

At tonight's meeting they pushed thru a contorted way of reconsidering Swadley's amendment regarding not spending the $.5 million in contingency funding until after the project was well underway.  The amendment was reconsidered and I could not hear what they were doing.  A friend at the meeting said they voted Swadley's amendment down.

They then formally tabled approving spending all or most or sum of the $.5 million in contingency funds until the July 14th council meeting.  Note the construction bids are due to be opened at 2 PM in city hall this Thursday unless they rebid for the 4th time.

The council meeting make me think of being locked in a mental institution with a committee of patients running the place based on most unusual rationales for action.

We have 6 alders who try to fight back with reason but it does little good against 6 alders. a mayor and a city attorney who seems to be the mayor's personal attorney and who seems to work for KPW and WalMart all at the same time.  He certainly does not think he works for the council or citizens.

If you watched the meeting on TV please tell my that I was just dreaming.

Thanks much!
Buzz Davis, 239-5354 (pls. call if you have questions and you wish to talk)
dbuzzdavis@aol.com

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