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September 5, 2007
City Council live, finale
Boy, it makes you really wish you were there, eh?
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4 comments:
Anonymous
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Steve -your play by play was good, but I'm still wondering what the rush was with having this special city council meeting. Why couldn't any of this get addressed at the regular council meeting next week? What opportunity would we have missed if they had waited?
The rush was mostly driven by the desire to get the industrial park contract approved so that perhaps work could get started sooner. The more that can happen this fall, the better, from the city's perspective. But it sounds like officials also wondered if any delay might lose an opportunity to buy the Lepore or Chic Miller property, not that it matters since the council wasn't interested in either site. I do wonder if McCauley had been there whether the Chic Miller vote would have had the same result.
In any case, I think the play-by-play account put everyone to sleep, which is understandable. I think I'll save live blogging for things like election nights, if I can do it then, and maybe some other special events.
4 comments:
Steve -your play by play was good, but I'm still wondering what the rush was with having this special city council meeting. Why couldn't any of this get addressed at the regular council meeting next week? What opportunity would we have missed if they had waited?
The rush was mostly driven by the desire to get the industrial park contract approved so that perhaps work could get started sooner. The more that can happen this fall, the better, from the city's perspective.
But it sounds like officials also wondered if any delay might lose an opportunity to buy the Lepore or Chic Miller property, not that it matters since the council wasn't interested in either site.
I do wonder if McCauley had been there whether the Chic Miller vote would have had the same result.
In any case, I think the play-by-play account put everyone to sleep, which is understandable. I think I'll save live blogging for things like election nights, if I can do it then, and maybe some other special events.
Steve, they don't pay you enough to sit through that crap.
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