Tuesday, March 17, 2009

City Council Meeting

City Council moved at a very brisk pace tonight with everything wrapped up in about 20 minutes. There were a couple of announcements about upcoming events, then straight into the consent agenda. Nobody wanted to question the warrants this time, but the Carbondale Main Street Fair Days resolution for the Downtown Art and Wine Fair on May 1 (blatant plug there) got pulled out for a separate vote. Seems CMS wanted to extent the events time an extra hour to 11 p.m since people were coming to the event early, going to Tres Hombres or Newell House for dinner, then coming back about 10 to find the Fair closing down. Since the city has a amplification ordinance against noise after 10 p.m., the council wanted to vote on the extension separately, with the understanding that, if there are complaints, CMS probably won't get the extension next time. Councilman Wissmann was pretty enthused about this resolution as he jumped in to make it before the mayor finished reading if off. Despite that, the resolution passed unanimously.

Next up was a resolution approving the final plan for the expansion at Prairie Living on Chautauqua. This will add 75 additional assisted living units to the facility, targeted toward higher income residents. After some questions about drainage and erosion from the mayor, this also passed unanimously.

The last item on the agenda was an ordinance adopting an identity theft program. Apparently the Fair and Accurate Transactions Act of 2003 requires cities to adopt ordinances saying identity theft is bad and bringing their operations, especially regarding billing, into compliance with the Act. After a couple of clarifications requested by councilman Wissmann, this too passed unanimously. The council was getting along very well tonight and adjourned about 7:20, to reconvene in their secret identities as the Liquor Control Commission

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