January 12, 2005
Fastest City Council In The West!
Blink And You'll Miss It
While reportedly not the shortest on record, this morning's City Council session managed to clock in at something around fifteen minutes or less.
With an agenda consisting only of two Communications, a seven-item Consent Agenda, and one Regular Agenda item, City Council could have just phoned this one in -- except, of course, that attendance by electronic communication requires some sort of emergency.
In short, the two Communications dispensed with, one item was pulled from the Consent Agenda back to the Mayor's office, the remaining six were passed without comment, and the singular Regular Agenda item was adopted after a staff report which lasted all of thirty seconds or so.
Beyond that, the only "news" was Mayor Potter's invitation to any of Portland's children to come to testify before Council as to how children in Portland are doing, and what the City can do to help.
As for what is the shortest City Council session on record, we don't know -- but we are assured by staffers down in the Auditor's office that there surely were quicker sessions. For our part, anyway, if any shorter sessions have occurred since we started this site, they were ones that we missed.
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The One True b!X on 12 Jan 2005
And to the reader who was wondering what the Consent Agenda item from Commissioner Erik Sten was: It was an ordinance to amend a contract with PDC to "administer housing and economic development programs that primarily benefit low- and moderate-income residents". It added just short of $8 million to the contract out of the Community Development Block Grant fund and HOME fund.