Another wrong turn at Albuquerque ... city council live blogging, part three.

(3) From members of the public, including petitions and remonstrances.

A woman says that everyone should take a pay cut. Because someone's on social security, no one else can be allowed to succeed or to make good. That sounds more like Steve Price's "Communism" than anything else.

Two firemen speak about staffing levels and mispercetions about pay and work. People applaud the firemen. None of them indicate how THAT money should be found.

Jameson Bledsoe: Supports tabling the police/fire ordinance. Thanks attending councilmen for the town hall meeting. They took the time to address the public. Laudatory. Not until four p.m. today ... workign people can't come to meetings at 4 p.m. "There's a problem with trust with other officials." Meetings need to be rescheduled. EDIT supporting sewers? Bad or good? Fringe area pays higher rate, so it's a wash (?) -- he says that a proper sewer system IS economic development (thus avoiding the point: now it subsidizes RATES), and therefore maybe we can clean out EDIT first. Jameson schmoozes like crazy, mostly acceding to the "you're not to blame" line. Crowd uncertain whether to applaud or not.

A woman says that New Albany might be a ghost town. Does she go downtown? Does she see what people are trying to do? Or is she eating at Applebee's?

Aw-Dit! Aw-Dit! Another citizen somes to the front without knowing how the sewer board works. Coffey explains the procedure, and doubts whether engineers are necessary (city engineer). Discussion ensues about a topic that might be answered on the Internet. Day-am, the people might get no say at all!

Coffey: Council should expand the sewer board (to include dullards, presumably).

Price: Georgetown sucks!! Never has there been the case that we let them people out there fleece us for all the millions.

Coffey: Now, the aw-dit is for the general fund ... it MIGHT dip into the sewer funds (he knows that it might no, but doesn't say that).

Next speaker: Aw-dit and no rises! Tough decisions. Abuses Carl Malysz and Shane Gibson's pay rate, and council insurance -- CUT THE FAT -- too much going on that shouldn't be going on. Pensions for police and fire -- cut what we promised them! Implies that maybe the right thing to do would be to break promises to retirees, so long as it isn't him as a retiree.

Let's ALL take a pay cut and pay it to the people who can't get by ... wait, that's Communism, and Steve's against it. He thinks. Maybe.

more to come