I guess you could call the below video a greatest hits from the latest Rancho City Council meeting that took place on Wednesday. As you can tell from the tone of my voice, I am angry about this. I should probably dial it back a few notches, but goodness, I can’t get beyond the basic and fundamental wrongness of axing your volunteers. On top of that, how these fired volunteers have shown such persistence in going back and going back and going back, only to have the Council members blankly stare back at them with no action ever deemed necessary. It’s all just wrong. The fired volunteers are all so polite, too. How can this be happening to them? It’s infuriating. I think I take it so hard because I KNOW that this is going on at so many other shelters around this country, and that very little is being done about it. Watching myself back I hope that I’m not hurting their cause, and instead, adding another dynamic to it. Who knows. All I do know is that I’m not good at hiding my disdain for something that seems so calculated, so in lockstep from the shelter management to the City Council. But anyways, these public comments were awesome and Mrs. Fincher should be thoroughly embarrassed.

And then they finally opted to at least acknowledge the fact that this issue isn’t going away, and address it publicly for the first time. John Gillison tap dances around some of the generic questions that he was asked by the Council members, but listen to Councilman William Alexander at 9:25… Someone is listening. It seems that he’s putting the rest of his colleagues on notice that he also believes that something is in fact wrong with all of this.

And here’s the great public comments from mid-April’s City Council meeting…