{"id":1434,"date":"2017-10-28T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T12:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2017-10-29T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:33:10","slug":"oct-28-the-del-fest-melodrama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 28 \u2013 The Del Fest Melodrama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Oct. 28 \u2013 The Del Fest Melodrama\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1434\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/102917_1226_Oct28TheD1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">Del Fest is an annual music festival held in our county annually. This was the year for a new contract to be signed. The process was as much a melodrama as the bickering of the 2016 Presidential Primary Candidates performed.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">There was a lot of misinformation swirling around our county during the negotiation process. A lot of information was reported in our local newspaper. The fact that these behind-the-scenes details hit print media further illustrates the collapse of common sense that prevailed. A new give year contract will be signed on Nov. 3, 2017. That is the best news!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">There is some bad news which I will summarize in bullet points below:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">Until less than 30 days ago the County attorney was not involved in the negotiations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">Until less than 30 days ago there had not been even one sit-down meeting with representatives of both organizations present.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">The contract was being negotiated via email between 2 people, neither of them being a lawyer.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;\">I feel a 5<sup>th<\/sup> grade student could have coordinated the process more intelligently than the County Commissioners!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Del Fest is an annual music festival held in our county annually. This was the year for a new contract to be signed. The process was as much a melodrama as the bickering of the 2016 Presidential Primary Candidates performed. There was a lot of misinformation swirling around our county during the negotiation process. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oct. 28 \u2013 The Del Fest Melodrama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}