CENSORED AGAIN

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Dear Awesome Not on Noble Neighbors, 

Follow our lead:   Let the San Jose City Council Members know what they WOULD HAVE HEARD YOU SAY had there been the open forum on 9/13/22 we all prepared for.  Email your 1 or 2 minute speech to every council member, to media, to social media..  and cc, us.

i.e,   this was emailed this morning from Sandra:

A disappointment to show up at the City Council Chambers last night, and find the doors locked; the place empty.  Sharing here, what City Council Members would have heard me say, had there been the open forum we prepared for:

"There are 2 things you can do

2 things you can do THIS WEEK

that will remove enormous amounts of stress, fear and chronic worry from the hearts and minds of thousands of parents, children, teachers and individuals 

1. On your city's EIH website listing, Noble still reads as 'proposed.'  The first thing you can do is UPDATE Noble Status to Not Viable on that EIH website list.   -this would then match with the Sept 9, 2022, Memorandum From Omar Passons to the Mayor and City Council.

2.  Second thing you can do THIS WEEK is give Penitencia Creek Trail, Reach 2,  Dedicated Charter Park Status. There is no reason our beloved perc ponds park should have to wait for all other parks in the entire 10th largest city to be evaluated first before this can be accomplished.

Currently you have 1000's of people enormously stressed, betrayed, untrusting and uncertain

YOU CAN FIX THAT THIS WEEK.   You can remedy that THIS WEEK.

Update Noble on the EIH website to Not Viable.  Give Reach 2, Dedicated Charter Park Status.

In Jesus Name, I pray, you do not prolong this preventable stress, worry, concern into 2023.   Amen"    

Sandra Harrison Kay

NOTonNOBLE.blogspot.com 

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i.e,   this was emailed this morning from Robert:

This is what you would have heard me say, had there been the open forum 9/13/22 which I prepared for:

"The stress the City Council has put on us is overwhelming.  Five years ago the city came after our park.  This year the city came after our park again.  We can't stop fighting for our park.  We can't go on living, day after day, year after year, stressing on when the city council will try and take our park again.  We need city council to approve, verify, sanctify, certify, document our Reach 2 Park as a Dedicated Charter Park.  I'm asking all of you to restore faith in government. We have lost trust in the federal government.  We have lost trust in the state government.  We have lost trust in the county government. What we have left is Our Local City Government.  Give us someone we can trust.  Restore trust in government officials.  We need integrity, honesty and faith in you.  Do the right thing and grant our park Charter Status."

 Robert Mickanen   NOTonNOBLE.blogspot.com 

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censorship has been experienced by our NOTonNOBLE community in a variety of ways:

  -restricting open forum speech from 2 to 1 minute

 - eliminating open forum opportunities completely  (night of non-citizen voting agenda)

 - changing open forum availability from 2nd/4th tuesdays to..    -still not sure..   sudden cancelations

- restricting use of signs (even though sign criteria was met and honored by all of us)

- restricting applause (for our group, but not at all for other guests regarding other issues)

- changing camera angles for our group, [but not for other guests/groups] during city council chamber meetings so that the large and growing NOTonNOBLE community with our signs and t-shirts are not seen by tv viewing audience. 

- showing up on time at 6pm, and ordered to leave until 6:30; creating an extra deterrent, and causing everyone to go through security checks a second time   -evening meetings lasting hours and hours before opportunity is given for public to speak.   -this leaves parents who have left work early and skipped dinner and hired child care without any time frame for how long they'll be gone and able to return. 

OPEN FORUM should have a consistently set date and time everyone can see and plan on. 

Not knowing whether there will be an open forum; not knowing when and if you'll have the opportunity to speak 2 or 1 minutes, or 30 seconds..   whether or not you'll have to wait 1 or 2 or 3 hours to even be heard for such a brief time..   all of this is a deterrent and form of censorship.        -THIS HAS AN EASY FIX:   A consistent date and time for open forums for the public which is predictable and can be relied on.