Just like the petulant child he sometimes is, the mayor decided to brag about sponsoring an agenda item then asked for it to be deferred, because once again, planning staff had better things to do on Tuesday night like volunteer at the Bunker Ramp-Bumper Cars, take in a Tuesday night NFL game or just sitting in drive thru at Taco Johns.
Who knows?
When it came to item #11 the mayor said that staff has asked this to be deferred. Which is common with complicated annexations because sometimes parties are NOT in agreement.
I also would NOT expect a councilor or the mayor for the matter to fully understand this item without a formal presentation from staff. Annexations have gobs of moving parts.
The mayor did the right thing. When staff can’t make it or are simply just asking for a deferral, we should accommodate them.
But you have to wonder after the mayor has deferred 3 items recently he sponsored because staff didn’t show up, it makes you wonder who their supervisor is . . . oh, nevermind.
The irony is when they shoved public input to the end of the meeting one of their (BS) excuses was so staff could come to the meetings and do their presentations and get home to their families and not have to sit thru Sierra giving advice on what crappy American beer I should drink to be certified white trash.
So now that staff isn’t bothering to show up on Tuesday nights, can we move public input back to the beginning of the meetings? I’m sure my request will be deferred 🙂