The Tribune's Daniel Suddeath provides coverage of last evening's council meeting. It looks like our mercifully outgoing council president fought yet another losing battle with familiarity of his body's procedures ... not to mention the council's.
Council says no to flooding, police funding requests
Council President Dan Coffey — who along with Gahan and McLaughlin voted to allocate the $400,000 for flood victims — said the council has helped developers and businesses and should help residents that have suffered this year.
Messer called for Coffey to either relinquish his president’s chair or follow Robert’s Rules of Order, which frown on the president offering comments while the council is debating an issue.
Robert’s Rules of Order were accepted by the council in 1957 and amended to the form OK’d by the body in 1992.
In an interesting exchange Messer told Coffey that he was out of order for refusing to yield the chair. Coffey then replied that Messer was of order.
ReplyDeleteIf twenty cops hadn't been standing right behind me I might have went Al Pacino on them.
Two worthwhile quotes from the night.
ReplyDeletePrice: "I am a little confused"
Coffey: "we should help those people instead of fixing sidewalks for businesses"
also it got interesting at the very end when Coffey could not Comprehend why a developer would not totally finish a project before he had an actual tenant.