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The OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ, where Wyatt Earp gained fame in an 1881 shootout. Will we see a 'shootout' at Monday's Council meeting? |
Normally, the agenda from the agenda-setting session becomes the agenda for the business meeting. The difference is that lettered items in one become numbered items in the business meeting agenda, so that resolutions will conform to the City's numbering system (how else would you keep track?).
Very rarely, City Council or the Administration will not bring an item forward and it will not appear on the business meeting agenda.
This Monday's agenda has two new items. A minor one is the addition of a resolution asking permission to hang a banner on Front Street for the Fire Safety Fair and Parade.
The second is more interesting: A 'discussion item' on 'Roles and Responsibilities' in Redevelopment.
Since this was not on last week's discussion list, I wonder if it has to do with Thursday evening's Planning Board meeting.
As you will recall from my post about that meeting (see here), Economic Development Director Valerie Jackson was expected to participate in the Board's public hearing on the proposed TODD South Redevelopment Plan.
The hearing, which had been advertised as for a "condemnation" plan, was abruptly postponed to an unspecified future date -- ostensibly because the crowd violated Fire Department maximum occupancy for the room.
At the same time, Planning Board attorney Peter Vignuolo pointedly told the audience (and the Board) that the Planning Board's sole responsibility with regard to "areas in need of redevelopment" proposed by the Administration was to determine whether the state's criteria for such a designation were met.
The final call, he said, on whether an area was to be 'condemnation' or 'non-condemnation' was the Administration's.
Will we get clarification from the Administration's side on Monday? Or is it going to become a shootout?
City Council meets for its business session at 7:00 PM Monday, September 9, in the Council Chambers / Courthouse at Watchung Avenue and East 4th Street. Parking available on the street and in the lot across from Police Headquarters.
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