Tribune reporter Daniel Suddeath previews tonight’s council meeting: Withdrawal from Riverboat Fund up for vote in New Albany City Council.
It’s a light agenda, barring unlikely but always conceivable additional smoking ordinance pyrotechnics, although it should be noted that arson by novelty lighter is strictly prohibited.
Enforcement? Don’t ask.
With non-smoking civic issues queued outside the council chamber like Indiana cars in front of West End liquor stores at 12:57 p.m. on Sunday, 2nd and 3rd readings of the appropriation described above are the only items of new business for the council, which — if you’re just tuning in — spent the past month wasting everyone’s time on an issue entirely off the city’s radar screen.
However, tonight the council is being asked to approve an appointment to the Historical Preservation Commission, and this should provide the likes of Dan Coffey the opportunity to pontificate, grandstand and entertain the somnolent gallery with his trademark nonsensical banter. I’ll be disapointed if he doesn’t flash his Bazooka Joe degree in vinyl siding installation (permit, schermit … cash is fine, ma’am).
Merriment like that keeps me coming back for more – that is, whenever I’m permitted to remain. Soon there may be an ordinance against me, and until there is, the council president presumably is soaking his ejection thumb in IcyHot.
After all, the only other choice tonight is to watch the geriatric John McCain on television, and contemplate the levels of theocratic fascist torture that former political “mavericks” are able to withstand before breaking down and crying “Uncle”.
Nope. I’ll take my chances wth Steve’s nickels and dimes.
