My friend Diana Thompson is running for P.U.D. commissioner. She decided to do so because she could find no information about the current commission or its decisions or even announcements about commission meetings. Diana feels very strongly that an organization that is truly “public” needs to conduct its business in as transparent as fashion as possible. Over the past few years that I have lived here, I can never remember seeing any information about what the commissioners were doing. The meetings I have heard about have been very sparsely attended, and the business conducted was done quickly, with little or no explanation of the issues and why the commissioners voted the way they did.

I do not mean to suggest that there is hanky-panky on the P.U.D. board. I simply mean that we have no way to know how well the current commissioners are doing or how their decisions are going to affect us. If someone who was truly dishonest were to be elected, it would take a long time to discover any misdeeds he or she might have committed.

Diana Thompson will end that kind of implicit secrecy. She pledges to publicize the time and location of meetings. Diana also pledges to publicize the results of those meetings. If she is elected, she promises that should you have a problem with the P.U.D., that you will receive a thorough and fair -and public – hearing.

Nancy Logan

Ocean Park