INSIDE CITY HALL Here are some decisions...

INSIDE CITY HALL

Here are some decisions coming out of Tuesday’s City Council

meeting.

COUNCIL ATTENDANCE

As is common during August vacation time, only four of the city’s

seven council members attended Tuesday’s meeting. On vacation were

Gary Adams, John Heffernan and Gary Proctor. Mayor Steve Bromberg

said that it’s so common for council members to be on vacation in

August that the council at one time considered not holding meetings

in August.

WHAT THEY SAID:

“Maybe we’ll want to look at that again sometime,” Bromberg said

of the idea of having council meetings “go dark” during prime

vacation time in August.

OASIS CENTER

A plan to work out the details of a more formal relationship

between the city and the Friends of the Oasis volunteer group died as

a direct result of Tuesday’s low council turnout. The item to create

a committee to draft an Oasis agreement was shot down Tuesday by a

single vote. Councilman Dick Nichols voted against the item. He voted

no after telling colleagues that he had wanted to be on the

committee. Bromberg did not change his original decision to appoint

Councilmen Don Webb and Tod Ridgeway. Nichols then voted against the

item. Because council actions require approval by a majority of the

full council -- not just the members present -- the 3-1 vote was not

sufficient for the motion to pass.

WHAT IT MEANS:

Though the motion failed, City Manager Homer Bludau on Wednesday

said that the matter will come back on a future agenda, probably on

Aug. 26. Six council members are expected to attend that meeting.

Proctor is expected to be still on vacation at that time.