Every year the Clerk’s office sends out an email reminding committee staff not to schedule meetings on certain dates. The memo states as follows:
To facilitate a quorum, while allowing the maximum amount of public input, please avoid scheduling any meetings on the following days/evenings of 2007:
Monday, January 15, 2007 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Monday, April 2 at sunset through sunset on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Passover
Monday, May 28, 2007 Memorial Day
Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Independence Day
Monday, September 3, 2007 Labor Day
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at sunset through sunset on Rosh Hashanah
Friday, September 14, 2007 Rosh Hashanah
Friday, September 21, at sunset through sunset on Saturday, Yom Kippur
September 22, 2007 Yom Kippur
Thursday & Friday, November 23 & 23, 2007 Thanksgiving Holidays
I thought it was odd the the Public Safety Review Board was meeting on Thursday, but that meeting was canceled today. However, someone else wrote the Council this email:
Why are there meetings on Rosh Hashanah? There are two large, important neighborhood meetings on Wednesday and Thursday night this week– on the holiest day of the Jewish year. One on the west side I would have liked to attend, but I will not be able to. Why were these meetings scheduled on this important holiday?
At first I wasn’t sure what she was talking about, then, I realized that she was talking about these two meetings on the Mayor’s schedule:
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
7:00 p.m. East Police District crime listening session (LaFollette High School Auditorium)
Thursday, September 13, 2007
6:30 p.m. Southwest neighborhoods meeting (St. Maria Goretti School, Gym)
Sunset is at 7: 13 on Wednesday.
At least Thuy Pham-Remmele sent a note of apology.
