Worth-Less

This is a different topic from the last "For What It's Worth" post.

I want to acknowledge the obvious.  I seem to have stopped posting about Commission meetings.  The meeting in February was so aimless and insubstantial that there was really nothing to say.  I probably made it through about 10-15 minutes of the March meeting before I quit.  There was some early blah, blah, blah, and the Agenda was faulty.

It will sound like I'm making this all about me, but I encourage anyone who reads this post to try to think past that reflex interpretation.  I tried to apply for two boards under the Truppman regime, but Truppman blackballed anyone who disagreed with her or criticized her, so I couldn't do anything to help out in any way.  About a month ago, I applied for the Foundation, because it needed members.  I figured that with a new Commission, maybe I could be allowed to volunteer my time.  I don't remember if I applied early enough to get on the February agenda, but I definitely applied more than early enough to get on the March agenda.  My application was not included, although applications for other boards were included.  I asked Mac Kennedy about this, and he said he would inquire.  Or lobby for me.  Or something.  Well, the answer was no, and the alleged reasoning, Mac was told by the manager, was that applications for the Foundation could not be considered until April.  This makes no sense, since there are openings (more than one), and there is no reason to limit which boards can be considered for new members in which months, or how many boards can be considered in a given month.

I wrote to manager Mario Diaz, and I pointed out that in each case, there were no more applications, for any board, than there were open seats, and all of these applications could simply be accepted without discussion, as part of the Consent Agenda.

I did not hear back from Mario about this, except for him to reiterate that applications for the Foundation could/would not be considered until April.  So I wrote back to Mario to remind him of the mindless and ambitionless inertia hell the Village has lived in since the beginning of 2017, when the Truppman regime started, and that despite the continuing lack of direction, ambition, desire, and competence on the Commissions (their majorities) since then, at least there didn't seem to be the Truppman raging vindictivenss.  I thought that was a good thing.  And I told Mario that the other big change recently was himself, and that we were all inclined to be happy about it.  The only thing I added was that we were still at the disadvantage of a Commission majority that didn't know anything and didn't want anything, and that Village functioning would essentially be a matter of Mario's instincts, unless the mindless and ambitionless Commission majority quashed anything Mario might have wanted to do.  Which might or might not have happened, or be happening.  I wouldn't know.

But my Foundation application was not included in the March agenda.  It seems like a very small indicator, but for me, things do not appear to be looking up for the Village.

So I've sort of lost interest in the meetings, since they're not really about anything, except Mac Kennedy talking a lot, but mostly to himself, and Judi Hamelburg telling her ongoing personal stories, and Ginny O'Halpin having nothing to contribute, and Dan Samaria being in some orbit no one can accurately track, and Art Gonzalez having not much of a role.

I'll still write about things, if I think they're of interest to BP residents, but I'm done chasing and memorializing the Adventures of the Keystone Kops.  The meetings are on Zoom, and if you're interested, you can watch them yourselves.