At last night's Common Council Meeting, Mayor Taylor addressed Item F1 on the Agenda, discussing Alderman Sohn's letter to Mayor Taylor regarding the ordinance violations against the Fox's.

If there's one thing that's never lacking on this Common Council, it's the small outbursts of disrespect for each other between those members from the past Council.  Usually the Mayor will attempt to control this.  But tonight was his turn to turn the knife.

I'll begin with Mayor Taylor and follow up at another time with more audio clips...

On another note, during citizen comment period, the Foxes made an emotional plea asking for understanding.  They say they are confused regarding this entire ordeal.  I have to say, by speaking, they added another side to this, making this a triangle.  This has been going on for over 30 years....

You can hear the first pod cast at my Rightyblog

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I attended the Common Council meeting yesterday, Tuesday, July 22^nd.

Several interesting items were on the agenda.  I’m going to present those items through short podcasts, in no particular order, and as I have time to go through the tape.

I’ll be starting tonight with Item G5, which was:

Resolution accepting Declaration of Restrictions, Covenants and Easements for Sendik’s West, 5320-5430 W. Rawson Avenue.

This discussion began with Alderman Wilhelm bringing to the attention of the Council and the Mayor that the Development Agreement was a mess.  She had meticulously gone through it and, in the end, this item is being sent back to City Staff to be corrected

The first podcast is Alderman Wilhelm discussing her findings.

The second podcast is an email from Greg Devorkin to Mayor Taylor, explaining what he is responsible for regarding landscaping and maintenance, etc.

One last note, at the last few meetings it has been noticed that the equipment in the Common Council meeting room is on the fritz.  Two meetings in a row the camera that allows you to view documents on television screens wasn’t working, but that has been repaired.  And now the last two meetings, the microphones haven’t been working properly. 

It would be nice to have all Common Council meetings done as a webcast.  New Berlin does it with their School Board meetings.  This is something I suggested tonight at our Franklin School Board meeting.  Wishful thinking, I know….but it wasn’t that long ago that I remember viewing our School Board meetings on Public Access T.V.  We’ve gone backwards.


Listen to Podcasts HERE