Are You Bored Yet

A reader would like to know the time of the special meeting this evening.Another claims to be hungry and wonders about the food.. Others just wonder exactly what is going on.

Join the club. I'm a councillor and I'm not privy to the rhyme or reason .

The meeting is at six. It was to have been held in the Holland Room. Now it is in the council chamber. Food is being served for councillors at 5.30p.m.in the Holland Room . I'm not eating this time. I find it uncomfortable to be eating while receiving a presentation .Sort of like...bad manners. Isn't that an old-fashioned expression! It's mainly for councillors who won't have time to go home to eat.

The presentation is the same as the one already given in private. Six of us have to sit through it a second time because three didn't the first time. The six were not consulted whether that was acceptable . If we did what Councillor MacEachern did and declared we would not attend, there would be no quorum and no meeting..

It's not clear how it will proceed. Mr. Fitkin is an educator. It's what he did in the first meeting. The room was prepared like a classroom and the session was essentially a participatory lecture.

This time the Mayor is presiding. I'm not sure how that's intended to work. I am sure there's a plan. It's just not obvious at this time.

Somewhere lurking at the back of my mind, there's an impression A Code of Ethics requires unanimous support. I heard a hint of that in Mr. Fitkin's comments last time we met.It makes sense. How else would it stick?

The councils (Toronto and Vaughan) with a Code formed a steering committee and designed their own standards . They did not agree to have rules imposed upon them. Why would they? Who would have that authority ?

Why would people elected to exercise judgement to the best of their ability on behalf of the community, submit to control from an outside source, about whose judgement we know nothing.

Tonight,I will be like everybody else in town... waiting to see what's going to happen next.