Zoning Code Rewrite – Council Briefing Recap
Only 6 or 7 alders were present at 5:30 when they it was supposed to start (Clear, Kerr, Palm, King, Skidmore, Bidar-Sielaff and Schmidt)...
Budget Smudget – Council Recap
Last night we had a council meeting to hear about . . . drum roll please . . . THE WORST BUDGET YEAR...
City Council 11/6/2006: Full of Surprises!
Three of them!First, it was only 20 minutes long. Yup. 20 minutes. That's the shortest meeting I've attended in my nearly...
Common Council Referral Recap
As usual, not much happened.The meeting started at 6:37 with Jed Sanborn and Thuy Pham-Remmele absent. We started out by recognizing Boy Scout...
Common Council Recap
A three hour meeting took care of a 839 page packet of information for the meeting . . . not too bad. Here's...
Common Council Recap
Chicken shit. That about sums it up.Last night's meeting started late and it was past 7:00 before we were done saying good-bye to...
The "As Long as I’m Awake" Council Recap
Well, I just got home at 2:00 . . . and it's not cuz we were at the bar!We probably should have known that...
Common Council Recap
It might take me as long to think about this post as the meeting lasted - an whopping 45 minutes.Ok - it wasn't even...
Common Council Recap (less than 1.5 hours)
Short meeting. PETER TALEN FIRE ALARM ORDINANCEWe started off with something I don't think I've ever seen - one of the items on...
Common Council Recap – The Basics (Not quite done . . .)
Bike lanes on Midvale, 600 E Johnson Project, Chronic Nuisance Ordinance, TIF agreement for Capital West, Capital Revolving Funds, the Sign Ordinance and oh,...
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...