No veto from Wu on Council's .19% change to $4.8B budget; New investigation in City Hall scandal announced via letter to Council; Durkan interrupts, shouts down Flynn over BPS questions
Loyal reader but not sure the characterization of the Chair's managing of announcements at Council hearings is altogether fair. I believe her predecessor, one of the two who attempt to take announcements sideways, did not allow announcements at all during his tenure.
The specific announcement policy of one City Council President vs another is not what BPI is commenting on here: it is the current Council leadership's impulse to prevent discussion on hot-button issues, which BPI has tracked across this whole Council term. The fact that Councilor Mejia used of a single docket on "city decision making" to hold this Council's first hearings on Madison Park High School construction, White Stadium, and Blue Hill Ave highlights all the other issues that haven't gotten hearings. Instead, important Chairs have either not held hearings, or when they do Councilors are told to stop asking questions that appear perfectly relevant, like last week's BPS transportation scuffle.
Loyal reader but not sure the characterization of the Chair's managing of announcements at Council hearings is altogether fair. I believe her predecessor, one of the two who attempt to take announcements sideways, did not allow announcements at all during his tenure.
The specific announcement policy of one City Council President vs another is not what BPI is commenting on here: it is the current Council leadership's impulse to prevent discussion on hot-button issues, which BPI has tracked across this whole Council term. The fact that Councilor Mejia used of a single docket on "city decision making" to hold this Council's first hearings on Madison Park High School construction, White Stadium, and Blue Hill Ave highlights all the other issues that haven't gotten hearings. Instead, important Chairs have either not held hearings, or when they do Councilors are told to stop asking questions that appear perfectly relevant, like last week's BPS transportation scuffle.
Can agree to disagree. Durkan shut down the topic because of the open meeting laws and I don't her as among the Chair's insiders.