Common Council Recap: 10/16/2007
It was short. We approved closing the two TIDS to give money to the city and school district. We gave the cops $100,000...
Common Council Recap: October 2
There were only two or three items of discussion, but we were still there until 9:00 or so. There were a few other...
3:30 AM . . .
I hope this trend of skipping committees and doing committee work on the Council floor doesn't continue . . . these late nights...
Sleepless Recap
The agenda kept us up until 4:00 in the morning, that's a 9.5 hour meeting. Here's the highlights, or lowlights, depending upon...
Common Council Recap
Well, despite all the referrals, we still managed to meet until 11:00 last night. September 4th will likely be a long meeting. ...
Council Recap: July 17th (from the music festival)
Well, "more on the agenda to talk about than usual" was an understatement. Here's what I can remember and have time to write...
Council Meeting Recap: July 3 2007
No better way to celebrate the 4th of July than talking about local government, eh? Ok - so before I forget, here's my...
Recap: CC June 19, 2007
Last night's council meeting lasted about 3 hours, with an additional 1 hour of presentation and questions about Transport 2020 and Trolleys at 5:30....
Council Meeting: Limiting Poll Workers and Passing Neighborhood Conservation Districts
Here's the recap (the second writing . . . grrrr, I lost the first verison) of what happened at the Council meeting last night...
Analyzing the New Council
Everyone is watching closely as this new council takes its first votes. People are anxious to see who falls into what categories...
What is the Role of the Economic Development Commission?
I was surprised at the last Common Council meeting when we tried to refer an item to get advice from the Economic Development Commission...
Civility, Aldermanic Courtesy and Working Together
Yesterday, outgoing alders were given the opportunity to say their good-byes, impart some words of wisdom to us and give us some words of...