Part one of live blogging for Monday, February 6.

THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CIVIL CITY OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA, WILL HOLD A REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING IN THE THIRD FLOOR ASSEMBLY ROOM OF THE CITY/COUNTY BUILDING ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 AT 7:30 P.M.


MOMENT OF REFLECTION

Shocking development: There'll be no invocation. Now we are asked to reflect. These are amazing times we're living in.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:

ROLL CALL:

They're all here.

APPROVAL OR CORRECTION OF THE FOLLOWING MINUTES:


Executive Session Meeting Minutes for January 12, 2012
Special Meeting Minutes for January 12, 2012
Work Session Meeting Minutes for January 19, 2012
Regular Meeting Minutes for January 19, 2012


COMMUNICATIONS – PUBLIC:

1. Larry Swank II -- Sterling Group. He will speak later during the R-12-03 resolution discussion. Passes around some information.

2. Mary McKurcher (sic) -- R-12-03 -- Muir Manor chairman of the board. Talks about people who want to come to Muir but there is no room. It is a clean place. In the paper it said no elder housing needed, but this is incorrect. She upholds the reputation of Muir Manor at length, presumably because she feels slighted by R-12-03 coverage. She needs to tell her residents to ride bikes in the proper bike lane and in the right direction on Spring Street!

CM Caesar asks her whether Muir is Section 42. Does it pay property tax? She says no, HUD controls it for twenty years ... CM Gonder asks what is meant by it. Caesar says he was ensuring Muir isn't one of the bad guys which does not pay full property tax.

3. Jameson Bledsoe -- R-12-03 -- Very complicated question, not dissing the elderly, but how much can the community support? If we give low income assistance to the elderly, it eventually will be for the benefit of all. Then everyone will have benefit, and then there'll be socialism (I'm guessing). Upshot: The city cannot afford to have any more low-income housing, and the council should support R-12-03 unanimously. Jameson explains that he has relatives with personal problems whose problems got even worse because of the atmosphere of decay that surrounds housing projects. Then he tells other stories about how poor people get ruined by the environment of public housing, and will never improve and make things of themselves until they move. Sincere, but disjointed. Treats low-income housing as the same thing as being addicted to foreign oil.

More to come