Guest opinion: Woodside’s ethics decision raises questions about accountability

"Personnel matter." That was the label. Two words, last item on the agenda, last meeting before summer recess on July 28. Nothing in it told a resident that the Woodside Town Council was about to resolve the only sustained finding against a sitting councilmember for disclosing a colleague’s confidential closed-session concerns in an investigation that took four months and used considerable public money.

Nothing in the July 28 agenda told a resident that the Woodside Town Council was about to resolve the only sustained finding against a sitting councilmember in an investigation that took four months and used considerable public money. Residents figured it out anyway, says Lexi Reese in this week's guest opinion.