It was scheduled and postponed, rescheduled and postponed. Now it is rescheduled again for Tuesday, 6 p.m. Wheeler Room A in front of City Council Chambers, 45 Lyon Terrace. The City Council’s Ordinance Committee will take up tighter regulation on sexually oriented establishments. OneBridgeport www.onebridgeport.com, comprised of neighborhoods leaders and public officials has been pushing tighter regulations both on the state and local level. From One Bridgeport:
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT ON MAY 22ND – 6PM AT BRIDGEPORT CITY HALL!
BRIDGEPORT: IT IS TIME TO STAND UP AND SUPPORT STRICTER LAWS ON SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES!
LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD: Bring your family, neighbors and friends and attend the Ordinance Committee Meeting to show your support for stricter laws on Sexually-Oriented Businesses and Massage Parlors.
When: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 6 p.m.
Where: Bridgeport City Hall, 45 Lyon Terrace, Wheeler Room A, Bridgeport, CT
*** Going to need at least four ordinance members to show at the meeting, no? *** HERE WE GO! ***
Tom White and the Ghost (revisited)
And if four CC members of the Ordinance Committee do show up, perhaps we can pray they have read the ordinance and understand its background and intent. (I’m very sorry to observe reading new ordinances, budget info, and such other material that is voted upon is optional on many matters legislative.) If a Council person has not seen the material or attended committee meetings where any discussion can take place before votes are taken, which then sets things up for the consent calendar, then don’t you just ask someone? Can you ask anyone? Or do you ask the “leader of the band?” And that would be Mickey Mouse? No, it would most naturally be Tom McCarthy, right? And possibly that is how the City Council eliminated its Legislative staff positions? And some claim to have had no clue two weeks ago they were “whiting out” Tom. Very possibly true!
To keep things in perspective, the revised Charter, making its way to a public hearing on Wednesday evening, has this new and additional language regarding the Office of Legislative Services: “The employees of the Council shall serve at the pleasure of the President of the Council and be confidential employees.”
That’s interesting and something I had not yet heard at the CRC meetings I attended including the first time Tom McCarthy addressed them. So at the same time Tom White and the Council were unfunding their “employees,” language was crafted and included in the revised Charter to indicate who is in charge. Isn’t that what “serve at the pleasure” truly means? But what if you are not truly pleasing in the future, will they unfund the position again (of course, after re-funding it if the Charter passes, or not probably)? I am starting to have one of those headaches again. What about performance evaluations? And what does a “confidential employee” do? Where is that defined? If it happens to be a male employee, does that make him a “confidence man?” Time will tell.