Earlier today, I expressed concern that Diane Neighbors may be more concerned with legislative efficiency than with fostering public discourse. Reporting on tonight’s Council meeting, S-townMike writes:
Diane Neighbors really faced no challenges compared to some of these hell-holes that the Council dug for Howard Gentry. She deftly deflected Vivian Wilhoite’s question about why some school grants were given to urban rather than suburban schools by ruling that Ms. Wilhoite should have asked it in the Budget and Finance Committee Meeting.
One man’s deftness is another’s stifling of debate. If the Vice Mayor can make up procedural rules as she goes along, I’d prefer those rules favor debate and insightful questions. The Council meets not only to satisfy its members’ curiosities, but also ours, and every question ruled “out of order” is a question to which I will never have the answer.
But hey, the meeting was over quickly. Yay, progress.
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