Resident Dan urges council to stop "month after month" closed sessions, warns about Eastside trash-site plans

Dan, a resident who spoke during the public-comment period, criticized the Big Bear Lake City Council for holding what he described as repeated closed sessions and urged officials to air deliberations in public. "This should be open to the public instead of closed sessions month after month after month," he said, adding: "You guys don't have the guts to talk about it."

Dan also questioned the council's use of "anticipated litigation" to justify private discussion and raised concerns about a proposed change affecting the Eastside trash site. "We have a beautiful building with millions and millions of dollars worth of equipment," he said, arguing that closing the site would harm that facility. He asked why the council could not simply talk about the matter in open session and accused officials of shielding their thinking from residents: "We're going to have anticipated litigation because we don't want the public to know what we're thinking."

The chair thanked Dan and closed the public-comment period before the meeting recessed to closed session. The transcript does not show any immediate response from the council addressing Dan's specific requests for open deliberation, and no further public discussion of the Eastside trash-site proposal appears in the record provided.