I try to get my Red Plan work out of the way before Claudia comes home so that she can enjoy a normal home after work. She doesn’t enjoy my politickting. I had more or less promised to come to tonight’s City Council’s agenda meeting but was trying to think of an excuse not to go.
Our patio and garden have been neglected in part due to cold weather, the basement remodeling (which has at time caused demolition debris to be heaped on the patio), and time spent in our daughter’s new garden getting her new home established. We went to Engwalls to pick up some flowers. I suggested a couple getting a couple of hanging baskets with great white fuschia blossoms. Claudia assented and also picked some begonias and vinca vine. I made a stop at Home Depot and got a couple eye hooks and screwed them into our arbor so that they hang above our patio swing. We hope to attract hummingbirds again this year.
Claudia asked what I wanted for dinner and I reluctantly told her I wanted to attend the Agenda session. We would eat afterward.
I signed up to speak and fortunately didn’t have to wait too long. (Chester Creek Cafe stopped serving at 9PM) A half dozen of us spoke up to encourage the City Council to add Garry Krause’s motion to put the Red Plan up for a vote. It was pretty obvious that it would fail because even those of the Council who thought the School Board should have done this had already made up their mind that it wasn’t the City’s business.
I’d sent a couple emails to the City Council earlier, my first ever, arguing the point, and after listening to the Move Duluth Forward folks decided to ad lib my thoughts again.
Jim Stauber who has been Krause’s lone ally on the vote knew the jig was up but just before the vote asked his fellow councilors with a sly smile, “aren’t you just a little curious?”
I’m sure they were but they voted down adding the motion to the agenda 7 to 2.
