Details later, here’s the main points. I had a ticket to go see the Butthole Surfers tonight and passed it up because I have to be at the office around 5 a.m., so I can’t stay up all night blogging either . . . I’ll do more on this later . . . probably Thursday morning. Meanwhile, here’s the short version.
1. They spent 40 minutes with honoring resolutions and announcements and screwing around. some of the honoring resolutions were serious and important, but they were just screwing around.
2. The consent agenda and changes included:
5 – rereferred with Rummel added as a sponsor
24 and 51 – the recommendation was adoption unanimously since they were extramojority votes
31 – Schumacher wants to be listed as a sponsor, not co-sponsor.
84 – Is an 11 vote item, not 14
93 – referred to next meeting
94 – is considered moved before item 27
Exclusions were items 23, 30, 55, 57, 58, 60, 80, 83, 90 and 93
3. Item 23 – E. Washington/Capitol Gateway BUILD design area was referred back to UDC.
4. Item 30 – Notifying residents about liquor licenses was approved with an amendment to say residents as well as property owners.
5. Item 55 – Pham Remmele made a fairly short statement and then wanted to be noted as voting against UW research park liability issue with the bike path.
6. Item 57 – Pham Remmele made another fairly short statement, a little more incoherent, and asked to be noted as voting no on the YWCA loan forgiveness that was discussed at Board of Estimates.
7. Item 58 – Alder Skidmore and others had questions about the assualt rifles for the police department. Yes, Alder Skidmore brought up an issue on the council floor! It passed on a voice vote with just a few nos, but who there are, we’ll never know.
8. Item 60 – Budgeting issue about Halloween funds. This actually had a roll call vote after a short discussion on budgeting. Voting no were Palm, Rhodes-Conway and Rummel.
9. Item 80 – There was a substitute that passed without discussion.
10. Item 83 – was putting a student on the ALRC and it was referred back to ALRC after a long discussion at CCOC where they agreed to add a student.
11. Item 90 – residency. This item took the longest, and failed with 9 aye votes and 10 no votes. Voting aye were Eagon, Sanborn, Schumacher, Skidmore, Solomon, Bruer, Clausius, Clear and Cnare. Voting no were Kerr, Maniaci, Palm, Pham-Remmele, Rhodes-Conway, Rummel, Schmidt, Verveer, Bidar-Sielaff, Compton
12. Item 93 was the Economic Development Work Plan – a new version was handed out, not available to the public. They discussed a few things and then passed it.
The meeting was over around 9:20.
Sorry, that’s all you get for now, hopefully I’ll have time to get more of it up yet this week.
