If you attend city council meetings, you'll probably agree with me that they're not designed to give the general public a good idea of what the heck is going on. I love when Frank Darrah jumps into a city council briefing by city staff to request clarification on complex terms as needed, just to ensure that everyone understands the context and meaning of the discussion. I think we need a lot more of that, because the meeting content can be hard to follow along with sometimes. For instance often a property will be listed for rezoning or some other change, but those of us in attendance will have no idea where this address is. Or the council will vote on some new ordinance, without even stating how the new ordinance will change the old, even what the language of the new ordinance is. As your at-large rep, I promise to keep my "interpreter" hat on -- to seek to understand and describe the context of a vote, what it means in the overall story of our city's development, and what the vote actually 'does'.
