Our Apotheoses Are Marching On: Return to live blogging, Volume 2 (October 5).

COMMUNICATIONS – PUBLIC (continued):

5. Larry Timperman - for the city of New Albany ... Coffey overrules him and says come back during discussion later. Scott Wood agrees to another Coffey rule change.

6. David Andrews - attorney for Georgetown, to reiterate a few points. Speaks about original intent; the climate for sewer plant construction and how hard it is to achieve it; how small $450,000 is as a figure, and how that small of a number could not possibly impact NA ratepayers.

7. Mose Putney - architect for developer Jack Bobo. Questions? Should I speak then or now?

Coffey: "Jumping up three steps, but that's all right." Agrees.

COMMUNICATIONS – CITY OFFICIALS:

Benedetti - Flooding issues. She has been going to stormwater meetings. Asks about stormwater borrowing against EDIT rather than borrowing outside as a means of getting some of these projects started.

Pat McLaughlin - wants the discussion of the master plan to be sure and mollify the misunderstandings of the public and their intentional misleading by the council.

Coffey - Notes that the VFW wants to put together an Internet cafe to help our hallowed veterans reach their kids. Appoints Pat to it.

COMMUNICATIONS – MAYOR

Not present.

APPOINTMENTS:

None.

APPROVAL OF CF-1 FORMS:

None.

INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS: READING

R-09-23 Resolution Confirming the Establishment of an Economic Revitalization Area for Matt Chalfant d/b/a Chalfant Industries, Inc. by the Common Council of the City of New Albany (Messer)

Unanimous approval.

R-09-24 Resolution of the Common Council of the City of New Albany Amending the “New Albany-Fringe Area Comprehensive Plan 2020” (Price)

Steve Price wants to set up a committee to study this Master Plan because there are concerns about things, and the state's about to make all planning illegal because of budget restaints ... Messer notes that Price introduced the resolution, there was a second.

Coffey then dramatically says that in spite of Roberts Rules of Order, he'll be tabling the resolution because "they've been working on it for a year, and we've only had it for three days."

A-09-12 Ordinance For Appropriations and Tax Rates Benedetti 1

Kay Garry suggests approving on first reading and then going back for adjustments.

Against: Price, McLaughlin, Benedetti, Gahan, Gonder, maybe everyone else, too, except Messer.

A-09-13 An Ordinance to Fix the Non-Reverting Budgets For the Year 2010 (Zurschmiede1)

Against - enough; rejected it roughly 6-3.

We're witnessing a nadir even by their standards.

A-09-14 An Ordinance Setting Salaries for the Year 2010 for Non-Bargaining Unit Employees (Gahan 1 )

No: Beaten again, mostly the same votes.

Now we are rushing through the "no" votes as fast as Coffey can take us.

G-09-20 Ordinance To Replace A Tabled Ordinance Seeking A Moratorium on Building Permits (Gonder 1)

Price: Retention ponds?

Gonder: New rules that are more strict must be retroactively rectified by developers.

Gahan, Zurschmiede, Coffey against.

A-09-11 Ordinance Appropriating Funds for One Time Cost Of Living Recognition Payment and Setting Amount Of Payments

Caesar tables it. No objections this time, because caesar did it right.

G-09-19 An Ordinance to Reflect Technical Changes Necessary As a Result of An Agreement With the Town of Georgetown (McLaughlin 3)

Coffey carries it "no" 5-4.

MISCELLANOUS ITEMS:

None.