Council president Dan Coffey has preempted tonight's Pledge Allegiance, and instead, the council has donned gloves and are singing:
Your Butt Is Mine
Gonna Tell You Right
Just Show Your Face
In Broad Daylight
I'm Telling You
On How I Feel
Gonna Hurt Your Mind
Don't Shoot To Kill
Come On
Oh my, the Moon Walk's coming ...
Minutes of last two meetings approved.
CF-1 forms moved forward. No Carlisle, No Fire King, no S & H Properties ... ut Stephen Tilton is here, so the last of four is approved.
Public comments are prefaced with Coffey's unexpected return to the five minute limit. He also will allow no name-calling, at least unless he's doing it.
PUB-COM
Shirley Baird: Wants to discuss paving. Wishes everyone would work together and get it done. Council and mayor squabbling, but why not do what we can with $2 million, then add the bond issue later? We elected the officials to work together, so "please do."
PUB-OFF-COM
Attorney Shane Gibson presents a list of the city's desired paving program, saying that it is offered "because you asked for it." Not "carved i stone," but gives an indication of planned focus.
D. Benedetti: When is it advertised?
Gibson: Next and following week.
Benedetti: Wants to see reused milling as a line item to see how much it is worth.
Gibson: Milling and paving, price per ton.
Benedetti: I'm talking about reused milling.
M. Thompson: They take it back and put used material back in the mix. It's "included in their bids."
K. Zurschmiede: Thanks for giving me what I was looking for.
S. Price: Uses a special case of utility work to ask what happens when something is repaved and then dug back up for work?
Gibson: Coordinating is tough. We try to avoid paving and then have it destroyed a short time later by utility work.
Coffey: Contractors have called me. They are interested.
Shane: Already expained this, and adds that he doesn't know how it's handled.
Coffey: Do we have a web site? Need to do it there, too.
Gibson: Explains procedure. Lowest and best bidder. Level 6 and down.
(Coffey the tech savvy wonk ... not ... but he's bad, he's bad ... don that glove)
J. Gonder: Asks about little area between Grant Line and Charlestown by Little Tiger.
Everyone seems to feel that there's a TIF for it, and that sidewalks are supposed to be done first. If there's another funding source, it will be used, not this one.
The Highwayman comments: Council is "micromanaging without a microscope."
Coffey gets unctuous in praising the decision to share information. Gibson responds. The orchestra swells.
I want to teach the world to sing,
in perfect harmony
No mayoral communications ... ordinances.
(see part two)
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