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What if we were to use that money to pay for staff to work with homeless people to meet their needs, what would be more effective? Is this really our city's priorities? Before they spend this money, they should do an equity analysis!

Here's what I could decipher . . . the school board meetings are so cryptic to me . . .

It's Passover, so 6 meetings, all cancelled.

17 meetings . . . so, on an average week they add roughly 1/3 of the meetings after Friday evening, so expect 6 - 8 more meetings to show up this week, check back for Mo' Meetings . . .

So . . . does it matter if the county board chair (our council president) or the county executive (or mayor) makes the appointments? Not really, there are always winners and losers.

You hear politicians say at budget time, that the budget reflects our priorities. Does it? Does it Really? Cuz I don't like what I'm seeing, and I think it explains our little equity problem quite well, especially in terms of arrest rates. We'd rather police people, then help them avoid that route in life.

If you've got city tickets, here's your "LAST" chance to reduce or resolve them! (Seriously, you have lots more chances. Don't believe the hype.)

Was reminded of this via facebook h/t to Irving (for the reminder) and Leslie (for Phil Ejercito's awesome photo). Makes me sad. The world needs more Ben Masel's, now more than ever.

Another email from the mayor . . . update and a question

20 meetings has turned into 29 . . . in just 48 hours . . . hopefully there are not more . . . that's a large margin of error!

Boring in comparison . . . but equally disturbing as they just work out everything behind the scenes. And voted not to allow people to speak a second time when a committee considers an item if they spoke the first time, even if the item (like the budget) has changed. The big issue is that we take up too much time. Annoying public, just let them do their work and stop bothering them.

So, you may have already read this on my facebook, but in case you haven't . . . this was crazy, it took an hour and 40 minutes. Don't say I didn't warn you . . .