Anyone else watch that nearly four-hour extravaganza of a City Council meeting last night? Thought so. It was a doozy. A few notes…

• The best part: Councilmember Ed Balico speaking at length — again — on the need for immigration reform and pointing out that Arizona shares a border with Mexico which makes it different than California. Yes, he did. (When will George Miller retire and allow Ed Balico to rise even further in the democratic party?)
• Two anti-tax residents addressed the City Council, clamoring over, uhm, a $180 tax for landscape maintenance. (The Baywood LLAD annual fee/tax is ten times greater, just under $1800.) Damn the schools and damn the streets; don’t take away my Prop 13.
• City Attorney Mick Cabral is sort of like a shady used car salesman (my apologies to shady used car salesmen throughout the bay area). I’m not sure Cabral is entirely lawful — that he upholds his oath as an attorney — or if he is the lawyer you want when you accidentally trip on some loose sidewalk in front of an orphanage and sue for compensatory damages for your jammed pinkie finger. His rather incomprehensible mix of strict and liberal interpretation of laws and ordinances makes me feel funny.
• And, nope, no substantive discussion of any items in the consent calendar, or any other items for that matter, not that the Brown Act explicitly states that the council’s “deliberations be conducted openly.” It does (§54950), but that really is a question for the City Attorney, or a subcommittee.

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