Click here for live link to City Commission meeting (1/3/12)

I am not in attendance, but am listening for a while. Initially the audio was fairly poor - it seems better now.  Lynn Anderson asked for a charter amendment to require a super-majority to fire a City Manager.  Teresa Miller asked for more detail on the legal fee item in the budget - to great applause.  Mark Parrilla reported about the Ed Fry item.

I was distracted last night due to company being here, so I didn't hear all the proceedings.  What sticks out to me is that, in response to Teresa Miller's request for basic but comprehensive details about the city's lawsuits, Commissioner Mulvehill said that the public can always submit a public information request and get that information.  Commissioner Mulvehill - this information hasn't even been available to the Commission!  The Mayor has asked for it.  The Commission discussed the need for this information last summer and we were told that an intern was working on it.  It is now January of 2012.  That response seemed like "let them eat cake", detached from the city's administrative realities and that this generally wasn't a problem.  I guess she doesn't think the information is important?

Under the revision of the distance waiver process for places serving alcoholic beverages, the conversation got bogged down over the status of Casa de Mara's license - which seemed to be colossally confusing.  We will hear more about this matter later.

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