Well, seems like Palm Bay residents are getting everything they voted for…..
Even when council decided to forgo the second round of public comments.
Nothing says swamp politics as usual like making sure that you’re public can’t redress their grievances in front of the board and only a certain number of people get that entitlement now.
Especially when the new candidates that have been elected platform had been to be the voice of the people.
Kinda hard to be the voice of the people when you don’t even want the second half of public comments during each city council meeting. #fafo stay tuned more to come!
Unfortunate that they pulled the later Public Comment portion. Given some of the recent Council votes, seems to me the Council is vulnerable to acting in their own isolated "bubble". Reducing Public Comment opportunity only exacerbates that. I didn't see the meeting (yet) . I don't recall any of the recent candidates for City Council running on less Public Comment?
I'm watching the Dec 19th meeting now on the Govt channel. Although I'm opposed to reducing Public comment opportunities, the advocates of eliminating the ending segment of public comments at Council meetings made a good case (in the interest of time/efficiency and other opportunities to comment). Interesting that all of the public comment speakers on the item were opposed and the rule still passed. In other business, I think I'm getting the flavor of the new Council's approach. While watching the meeting, it occurred to me that our City is somewhat a microcosm of the Federal Govt. When they were scrutinizing the Citizen's Boards (making people justify their existence or eliminate them), the Sustainability Board came up, with a "Clean Energy" goal for the City by 2035, vague recycle goals etc as part of their charter. During the discussion there was a consensus to eliminate some of this, the City Attorney spoke up and said the Board is part of the Comp Plan and it would have to be modified as well as the ordinance for the Sustainability Board. I think this is a example of how hard it is to eliminate a Govt activity. I like the attitude of , justify it or we are eliminating it.
Well, seems like Palm Bay residents are getting everything they voted for…..
Even when council decided to forgo the second round of public comments.
Nothing says swamp politics as usual like making sure that you’re public can’t redress their grievances in front of the board and only a certain number of people get that entitlement now.
Especially when the new candidates that have been elected platform had been to be the voice of the people.
Kinda hard to be the voice of the people when you don’t even want the second half of public comments during each city council meeting. #fafo stay tuned more to come!
Unfortunate that they pulled the later Public Comment portion. Given some of the recent Council votes, seems to me the Council is vulnerable to acting in their own isolated "bubble". Reducing Public Comment opportunity only exacerbates that. I didn't see the meeting (yet) . I don't recall any of the recent candidates for City Council running on less Public Comment?
Expand the first comment. It is a timestamped summary of each discussion.
I thought about publishing this as a separate post. Feedback appreciated.
https://youtu.be/RcDm355sU7Y?si=beeBOIWVQKGOF1ho
I'm watching the Dec 19th meeting now on the Govt channel. Although I'm opposed to reducing Public comment opportunities, the advocates of eliminating the ending segment of public comments at Council meetings made a good case (in the interest of time/efficiency and other opportunities to comment). Interesting that all of the public comment speakers on the item were opposed and the rule still passed. In other business, I think I'm getting the flavor of the new Council's approach. While watching the meeting, it occurred to me that our City is somewhat a microcosm of the Federal Govt. When they were scrutinizing the Citizen's Boards (making people justify their existence or eliminate them), the Sustainability Board came up, with a "Clean Energy" goal for the City by 2035, vague recycle goals etc as part of their charter. During the discussion there was a consensus to eliminate some of this, the City Attorney spoke up and said the Board is part of the Comp Plan and it would have to be modified as well as the ordinance for the Sustainability Board. I think this is a example of how hard it is to eliminate a Govt activity. I like the attitude of , justify it or we are eliminating it.