u/Egorrosh

Started off better than the last time. Almost all commissioners arrived on time.

Councilmember Nowakowski offered comments on the budget proposal.

I spoke during public commentary period. Commissioners agreed with my commentary about audio issues being a concern in regards to ADA and NY state public meetings law, and agreed that they should be provided microphones, but stated that it's not entirely up to them to decide on the equipment they are provided with. But not as many issues hearing this time, in large part due to there being way less people, but air conditioning ventilation caused some hearing issues nonetheless.

One commissioner raised a question about one person in front row from newspaper filming the procedure. Commissioner Reese objected to the concern, saying that if commissioners believe they're not doing anything wrong, they should have no issues with being filmed. The chair of the meeting said he didn't see any problems with being filmed, either.

Agenda sheets remained poorly organized, not a united document, pages not numbered.

Commissioner Reese raised concern about one agenda item not being made publicly available 24 hours prior as a violation of public meetings law. Concern was dismissed by the commission.

Kicked can further down the road on electoral reform with establishment of task force, all voting in favor of it except Commissioner Reese, who saw it as a waste of time and resources, and who suggested that the common council should tackle electoral reform directly.

Commissioners appeared to be unsure of what the purpose of police oversight body is supposed to be.

I did have some considerable hearing issues towards the latter half of the meeting due to ventilation. Changed seat from 5th row to 3rd row. (9 rows total, only first four had people on them, majority of people in the front two rows, first row only having two seats)

Commissioners once again got confused on the topic of the discussion of amendment proposals.

At around 6 pm I had to leave due to commute schedule of mine.

I mean, what even is there to say...

The commission consisted of about a dozen adults. A third of them didn't arrive on time. The audience couldn't hear most of what they were saying because the room was not equipped with microphones. They voted down proposals that could have completely reshaped the city, and they voted them down because they couldn't comprehend the text that was before them, in paper printouts that they couldn't properly print out, label, staple and organize.

I study for a PoliSci minor, and one of the classes I have taken by now was a city government simulation. And let me tell you, half a dozen college kids with a couple of days prep time were 10 times more efficient than this commission at sorting out an agenda and voting on it. And the people on the commission had A YEAR. Heck, a middle school student probably could have done a better job with a single all-nighter while starting from scratch.

Based on an earlier post with my headcanon for The New Millenium timeline.

R4: This timeline is aftermath of Eisenhower running for President as democrat instead of Republican.

Now, granted, it took me almost a decade of preparation to be able to take on Germany, but I somehow did manage to pull it off. (Spit, grit, and a whole lot of CAS). Feels nice.