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Hat} ctc7vj P u b ( i C Oct. 24112-V/L Public Comment to the Roseville City Council By resident Gary Grefenberg October 24, 2016 Introduce yourself as speaking only for yourself. For the last seven months or so I've eagerly looked forward to an opportunity to speak to the Council about the personal attacks, half-truths, and fabrications about me that several residents of our community (I stress several since only three people involved, aided and abetted by a council member who seems to have forgotten that part of her sworn oath of office includes the words to faithfully, justly, and impartially discharge the duties of her office. I of course am referring to Council member McGehee. Unfortunately, because of my current illness and upon the advice of my doctor I have not been able to take advantage of prior opportunities to respond to the coordinated and organized smear campaign against my character and the civic work I have been involved with for over ten years now. Until tonight. I am here tonight to respond to some of the accusations and charges made against me because I do not agree with Council member McGehee or Neighborhood Association Chair Sherry Sanders. I do not want my silence so far to be misinterpreted as consent. Unfortunately, since there are so many untruths abounding and my time tonight is limited, I will have to confine my remarks to three current charges. First, several Council meetings back member McGehee bitterly accused me of falsely speaking for her neighborhood, Mid Oaks Lane, a neighborhood I also live in and have for 19 years. I believe that every time I have spoken to this Council I have clarified who I was speaking for, and I have never said that I speak for all residents in SW Roseville or any component of same. When I have spoken for a group of Residents other than my family, I have carefully prefaced my remarks by indicating that I was speaking for the SouthWest Area of Roseville Neighborhoods (SWARN), and not for every resident in SW Roseville. • Unlike the leadership of the Lake McCarron's Neighborhood Association, I do not include in my remarks those who have not actually enrolled in SWARN. It's easy, dissembling, and inaccurate to say you speak for all residents simply because you drew a pencil line around their neighborhoods. In conclusion, Council members McGehee's earlier remarks, that I falsely claimed to be speaking for her neighborhood, has no substance and may be simply a way to discredit me and the neighborhood association SWARN. 1