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Notice in an email from the Municipal Clerk's office today. |
Per an email from Municipal Clerk 'AJ' Jalloh on Tuesday, City Council's agenda meeting set for Monday, December 4 has been cancelled and is being replaced with a combined meeting on Monday, December 11, starting at 7:00 PM in the Council Chambers/Courthouse at Watchung Avenue and East 4th Street.
This is sure to set Olddoc's teeth on edge, as this is now the fourth month this year in which the deliberation meeting has been collapsed into the business meeting. What has happened in practice is that there is almost no deliberation, giving rise to the impression of "rubber stamping".
My kvetch is with the notice, which refers to a "joint meeting". To my mind, a joint meeting would be like when a foreign poobah addresses a joint session (meeting) of both houses of Congress; or when the Council meets with another body -- such as the PMUA commissioners or the Board of Education.
When two of the Council's own sessions -- agenda-setting and business -- are combined and no other body is meeting with the Council, it seems to me that grammatically that is a "combined session".
But as the Holy Father says, "Who am I to judge?"
This is sure to set Olddoc's teeth on edge, as this is now the fourth month this year in which the deliberation meeting has been collapsed into the business meeting. What has happened in practice is that there is almost no deliberation, giving rise to the impression of "rubber stamping".
My kvetch is with the notice, which refers to a "joint meeting". To my mind, a joint meeting would be like when a foreign poobah addresses a joint session (meeting) of both houses of Congress; or when the Council meets with another body -- such as the PMUA commissioners or the Board of Education.
When two of the Council's own sessions -- agenda-setting and business -- are combined and no other body is meeting with the Council, it seems to me that grammatically that is a "combined session".
But as the Holy Father says, "Who am I to judge?"
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