Three of them!
First, it was only 20 minutes long. Yup. 20 minutes. That’s the shortest meeting I’ve attended in my nearly 6 years on the council.
Second, right before the meeting, Ald. Larry Palm walks up and hands me a “local purchasing ordinance” that he said he was going to introduce at the end of the council meeting and says “I know how you don’t like surprises.” Wow. Here I was trying to be collaborative and work together with a committee by requesting a report and having a public discussion. If I knew this is what we were going to do, I could have introduced my own ordinance last July. Needless to say, I was surprised. (Sorry, no link yet.)
Third, I referred the ordinance that would do part of the Department of Planning and Development Reorganization to the Community Development Block Grant Commission, the Community Services Commission and the Economic Development Commission. From the look the Mayor gave me, I guess he was surprised. And displeased.
