I attended the City Council meeting a few nights ago. I'm always torn when deciding if I should go or not. On the pro side, it gives me an opportunity to find out what's going on in our city. On the con side, I usually don't like what I learn.
For example, at this last meeting I learned that the City Council has the final say on what kind of siding people use. There was a 5 or 10 min discussion on siding for one neighborhood that they talked about the previous meeting. There was also a presentation that lasted at least 20 mins on some new kind of siding that a developer wanted to use. After the PowerPoint, one of the councilmen said, "After the 2 hour meeting the other day (at some planning sub-committee) I think it's a good product." Apparently this is still not enough to make a decision, as they said something about a representative from the company coming to the following meeting to give another presentation. Don't they already have rules somewhere that people can just follow? Why waste so much time on these minor details when they could be working on actual problems?
And then... Our mayor told a story about how he spent 4 hours driving to Illinois to watch some military colonel hand off authority to another. But wait! They're both from our city! That totally seems like a how a mayor should spend his time. [sarcasm] That's annoying enough but it made me even more mad to think about how I asked the city's communication office if he would be willing to proclaim a week in April as National Library Week. Since the ALA has a sample proclamation all written up I figured it wouldn't even be that much trouble. Did they do it? No. Did I even get a response from his office? No. That is what makes me the most angry.
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