WHAT JUST HAPPENED OR SO I BELIEVE

Yesterday on our nation's birthday, I watched a replay of the June 28, city council meeting. Yes while every other red-blooded American was involved with either the beach, cookouts, or fireworks, I was stuck watching PETE CAPANO set of his own pyrotechnics in council chambers. For anyone late to the game, he was protesting the placement of the two proposed MEDICAL MARIUANA stores in his ward, WARD 6,  without the consideration of any other place in the city. (that tells you what a PATHETIC life I lead that that was my entertainment)

He felt, and probably rightly so, that his WARD is always the DUMPING ground when the city has something they got to have but want to get rid of. Anyway there was a lot of shouting, mostly from PETER, and back and forth berating with some councilors trying to point out all the good things going on in WARD 6 to deflect the prospect of the placement of the TWO MM stores in only that WARD.

Anyway I don't really ant to get into that debate right now. I have an interesting proposal on the matter, I will put forth later. Because we are operating under the gun of an AUGUST 6th deadline and with most of the councilors going on vacations (a foriegn concept to me) over the summer, picking a date to get together a quorum would prove difficult.

Before agreeing to a special meeting tonight, COUNCILMEN TRAHANT wondered out loud if the charter allowed them to phone it in. Was it really necessary to cast their vote in council chambers only? City attornay LAMOTTA told them that the STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL has ruled such REMOTE PARTICIPATION is legeal if the city CEO (in our case JUDY) says so and she as of yet has not.

OR HAS SHE? See, you see, at the last LSC meeting, a field trip that had already happened had to be approved (LTVI had two track athletes going to a NATIONAL[maybe REGIONAL but BIG anyway] competition) in GREENSBORO. This kind of technically illegal stuff happens all the time. No one really cares and hardly anyone notices. It is always done without much fanfare except for the lame joke the MAYOR always uses about the WAYBACK MACHINE.

However this time was a little different. We were spared the MAYOR'S one-liner's BECAUSE we were told the LSC members had already been contacted and had given their approval so as to not jeopardize this crucial trip where TECH athletes would go on to bring honor and accolades back to LPS. Sounds like REMOTE PARTICIPATION to me. Perfectly legal actually, so ATTORNEY GENERAL says says ATTORNEY LAMOTTA. I don't doubt him even though the topic never came up in my conversation wiith the AG's office.

So my friends on CITY COUNCIL, you have to ask yourseves, "Is what's good for the GOOSE really good for the GANDER?".