It was reported tonight that Council President Linda Krug stepped down from her post after suffering a great deal of criticism for her recent running of Council Meetings. Mayor Ness said he believes it is a first for the City Council.
I did much the same thing in 1998 when I resigned as Chair of the School Board but after four months not ten like Councilor Krug. The circumstances were different (this is how I explained it a short time afterward) (this is some additional detail I wrote five years ago) and I did so with an attempt at levity that got me mentioned national attention. Linda did it little awkwardly but with genuine remorse. I admire her humility.
Its bed time. I’ve wanted to blog something fearful all day and I had a passel of posts in mind. Instead I had to spend my day cleaning up after 14 guys from Superior Construction saved my bacon but tracked half of Duluth into my basement to make sure 4th Street and 21st Avenue didn’t become an Olympic Ice skating venue this winter.
During our District’s “Annual Report to the Community” presentation at Lincoln Middle School tonight I suggested to Supt. Gronseth that we ought to get together for a talk next week. If we set a date it will be our first one-on-one meeting in over seven months. I don’t want to jinx it by being quite as finger happy on the blog as I’ve lusted to be for the past couple of very busy days.
I’ve begun meeting with potential 2015 school board candidates in earnest. I’ve found out how the Minnesota Department of Education keeps its pulse on the Federal Title One funding. I dismantled Jabba the Hutt. I got halfway started cleaning up a basement that looks and smells like a rock quarry. I dug a post hole down to a huge void that needs to be filled with about five yards of sand before a sink hole opens up and swallows the strawberry plants I have labored over for the past couple years. I’ve got a lot on my mind but I hope this late night post helps clears it enough so I can get the good night’s sleep that would really be useful before I drive my Chevy to the shop tomorrow to have three long neglected recall warnings addressed. I’ve scheduled another political meeting during the repair. Maybe after all that I’ll find time to read the last four day’s worth of News Tribunes that have been gathering dust in my office.
