Welcome back! This week, we’ve got a gas station by the high school, details on the river can ban, PDDs, and emergency sirens.
Don’t forget! The VisionSMTX survey is open until Friday, February 23rd! My cheat sheet of recommended language is here for your cutting-and-pasting pleasure.
Onto the meeting!
Hours 0:00 – 1:30: A new gas station, and the can ban moves closer to the finish line.
Hours 1:30 – 2:50: Bringing PDDs back! And some emergency sirens, and P&Z re-appointments.
I just want to note: lately no one talks besides Mayor Hughson. Jane takes her job super seriously. She reads everything carefully and offers up improvements. But no one else ever has any amendments to anything, nor much discussion to Jane’s amendments.
I think there’s a number of reasons:
- General indifference to details. (Saul, Shane, Jude)
– Thinking it’s futile. (Alyssa, being the only progressive)
– Sincerely agreeing with everything Jane says (Mark Gleason and Matthew Mendoza)
– Having a full time job on top of council is too much (Probably all of them)
But even if the reasons are sympathetic, it’s not great. If you watch a P&Z meeting, everyone seems prepared to ask good questions and weigh the decisions carefully. If you watch a city council meeting, there is barely any discussion of ideas or improvements to policies. It feels like things get rubber-stamped without scrutiny. It’s not great.
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