The City Council will meet tonight at 7:30 with two items on its agenda: a resolution for a transfer of funds and an annexation of non-contiguous property for the impending Grant Line Road Industrial Park West.
CM John Gonder will also update the Council on the work of the Housing Committee he chairs.
1:36 Update: Gordy phoned over lunch to retract his earlier organizational assertion in the paragraph below. There may yet be a head-to-head but, according to Gordy, "it ain't happening tonight." All the more time, then, to print tickets and build a proper cage. We were wrong about tonight's meeting. That's no reason to begrudge a grudge match. Our economy's at stake.
Intrepid reporter Gordy Gant wires that there's a public hearing at 6:00 as well, with One Southern Indiana, Develop New Albany, and the Urban Enterprise Association all making pitches for their respective organizations. I personally think they should wrestle for it, with ticket receipts going to fund an expansion of NABC's Fringe Fest.
Update: The pre-meeting meeting, more of a work session than hearing, will include a short presentation about the Historic Preservation Commission and its positive, criminally undefunded role in the city. Given that Coffey's last mention of "them people" was a complete fabrication (he claimed a citizen was forced to remove $40,000 in vinyl from her house and lost the property due to the expense), another grandstanding opportunity shall not go wasted.
Considering the city legal department's near total dereliction of duty in enforcing the historic standards made law by the council, this writer would like to personally invite the city attorney to the session. We'll be checking on you, Shane, and the pool of attorneys your boss promised the community to deal with enforcement.
One wonders if the County will bother to unlock the building for business today or if city employees will again be left to fend with the influx of county residents and questions as they try to direct storm recovery in town.
Has there been a public explanation as to why county offices were closed this week? Was there even an announcement, other than random citizens standing dejectedly around Hauss Square shrugging at each other after their door knocking failed to produce a live person? It seems an odd strategy in an election year.
Another meeting will keep me from Council attendance. If they decide to move the wrestling match to the Brewhouse, let me know. It'll have more of an impact on the city than county government anyway.
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Holy Hide-outs! I was aghast to learn "city-county Hall" was shuttered for the week! Who's coordinating emergency response? From where? How would someone know? I imagine this has overwhelmed the already overwhelmed PD. Jeez - I bet the Circle K has fielded more emergency calls than city government, at least they were filling gas for generators. Didn't the city get lot's of goodies from that Federal budget buster the Dept of Homeland Security for just such a disaster? Or does government now only respond when the threat is from Muslims and/or "them people"?
I should also like to say I've see the Street Dept doing a heck of a job downtown. I mean that seriously...thanks guys!
City employees have been on site at the City-County Building all week. County offices, at least early in the week, were closed. Thus, the outside doors were locked.
I have no idea what the county was or is doing or why they closed downtown offices. The phones and electricity have been operational at Hauss Square all week. I've not seen or heard any explanation.
Matt Denision, on the other hand, has been doing his best to keep the city informed. We pretty much know what the NA folks are up to and how they're progressing.
EMA at the Reisz School building was certainly the site of county emergency management...still, why wouldn't the elected offices be open?
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