Our Council

Last night after my last showing I rushed over to the Oshkosh Common Council meeting hoping to arrive before the council took a position on the water tower. This more than 100 year old historic building was scheduled to be demolished at Tuesday's vote despite the fact that no notice was given to the community. As is/has/and always will be, the staff and council refuse to notify the actual people who live in neighborhoods about anything.

Even though I missed the vote I did learn the council tabled the issue until after (yea right) a "hearing" on the issue.

The council at last nights meeting was also having a workshop on the Near East Project. This project has had great benefits while being a might bit dictatorial and sometimes random in its enforcement mechanism on homeowners. More money would solve many of the problems, but as we know, solving neighborhood issues anywhere but the west are not a priority.

The funny moment at the meeting was when Council member Palmeri was expressing his usual harrumphing this time about the lack of quality in our schools, East-side of course, he had to turn to the other council members to inquire, "which elementary school serves the near east?" The other clueless council members could not help with his perfect display of rhetoric over reality.