Not what transparency means

To the Editor;

I was one of the 115 people in our county who attended the recent county commissioners meeting by Zoom (appropriately so, because they were unmasked). I was appalled at the evident disinterest in the opinions of the many residents who attended, and in the embarrassing incompetence in how to run an appropriate, respectful and inclusive public meeting on Zoom.

After all these months of COVID shutdown, our elected representatives should know how to do this. They effectively “hung up” at 9 a.m. on these interested citizens by purposely switching off the meeting to exclude the Zoom participants and then proceeding with their meeting in a private forum and ultimately signing the resolution we were there to discuss. They were complaining about what they perceive as a lack of ability to get their voices heard at the state level. What hypocrisy! Their behavior is not what public transparency means. Furthermore, I believe it is illegal. Shameful.

Lesley Fernow

Dover-Foxcroft