Vallejo Independent Bulletin - City Council Special Meeting May 4, 2010 --By Katy Miessner

Vallejo City Council

Special Meeting May 4, 2010

“Mini-ME…eting”

By Katy Miessner

5/5/10

This was a “special meeting” called by Mayor Osby Davis so that he could buy more time to edit the Youth Commission resolution and Ordinance.

This was first brought to council on April 13 by Councilmember Gomes after a lot of organizing work she and youth activists Ruscal Cayangyang, Maria Guevara and others collaborated on.

So what where the edits suggested by Mayor Davis (besides the edits suggested by council when this was brought back for edits on April 27)? The word “commission” in the document that was capitalized was changed to lower case. The word “commission” appeared eight times, so it had to be changed eight times. And of course, Gomes’ name had to be redacted from the resolution (mop brow).

Somewhere between April 13 and May 4, a typo made its way into the resolution that no one caught! (It’s “were’s Waldo”: read page 2, fourth paragraph of the staff report and see if you can find it.) The reason I bring this up is that the Public, City Staff and other councilmembers had to wait three weeks for what were minimal edits that could have been done after the first meeting (or at least before the second as was promised). But a special meeting had to be set because Davis couldn’t get his act together to change the capitalization on the word “commission.” How much staff time did this take? Re-editing the document, announcing the special meeting, mailing the council packets out to councilmembers three times. It is a waste of resources that we don’t have. And when all is said and done, there’s a typo in the resolution.

Thank goodness the meeting was only a minute long.

7.1 a. adoption of a resolution holding on first reading an ordinance repealing Vallejo municipal code, chapter 2.42, community development council – youth activities commission and replacing it with a new chapter 2.42 entitled “community development council – youth commission” to make numerous substantive changes and additions to the existing ordinance, including, but not limited to, name of the commission, membership requirements, adult and councilmember nonvoting liaisons, maximum term of appointment, purposes and duties.

Proposed action: adopt the resolution.

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Dirk Diggler

|May.07.2010

As worthless as Oz has been he seems like a big producer compared to Wilson. And then you got your Sunga.......Jeeeeezzzzus Christ. Sometimes I think Vallejo was built on a Indian buriel ground.

Osby Springer Show

|May.05.2010

Next Osby Springer Show will be next Tuesday! Hold on to your hot air for this!

It Is

|May.05.2010

Osby, you are an embarrassment. Shame on you for wasting time and resources just for an ego stroke. Little man, little mind, big waste.

BTW, Gomes comes out looking great in all this because she worked hard on this not for ego's sake. Maybe you need to take a page from that playbook, eh?

CRRAAAZY

|May.05.2010

This man (OZ) becomes more incompetent daily. I don't know how he manages to ties his own shoes in the morning. Is he trying to set a record for the least accomplished, or even attempted, in the history of Vallejo? My guess is he has already won. Why can we not eliminate this position all together? We can put some high school kid up there to make these decisions. As it is we are getting the equivelant of a 3rd grader up there now so a high schooler would be a marked improvement.

Firebug

|May.05.2010