Berks County Industrial Development Authority meeting schedule obtained.

Tue, July 30, 2019
  • The BCIDA website says they hold public meetings, yet the meeting schedule isn’t listed.
  • Puzzled at this apparent oversight, I sent two emails asking about this, one on July 22 and another on July 26. I finally received a reply on July 30 with an attached schedule in the form of a Microsoft Word document and with the following statement: “The meeting schedule is advertised in the Reading Eagle newspaper in December for the upcoming year. Attached please find a copy that appeared in the newspaper. Throughout the year, there may be times that the meeting date is rescheduled. That change is advertised in the Reading Eagle prior to the original scheduled date.”
  • I wrote back and asked why the schedule isn’t available on the website, and also to see whether the next listed meeting (on August 12, 2019) will actually take place as the document gives a schedule but then qualifies this by saying that meetings “will be held on an as-needed basis”. The BCIDA’s practices regarding the scheduling and announcement of so-called “public” meetings are a serious red flag as they discourage public awareness and observation of its activities.