Gene Pease’s chair sat empty at last week’s Town Council meeting. We don’t know why. Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt didn’t say. When Pease missed the council’s season opener, the business meeting on Sept. 15, Kleinschmidt announced that Pease was out sick. So why didn’t the mayor tell us why Pease was absent last week? I’m not […]
Where’s Gene?
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/10/05/wheres-gene/
Business as usual?
Another season of Town Council meetings begins tonight at 7, and it already looks like déjà vu all over again. Over the summer some council members seem to have gotten in touch with their inner sneak. Like students returning from summer break, they are trying to see how much they can get past the teacher […]
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/09/15/business-as-usual/
Rational decisions, or not
After almost a year of tracking the Chapel Hill Town Council and how it works, I’ve concluded that the folks on the board are not especially smart. Many times during the year the board members had to decide on an issue, and rather than base that decision on the facts, members chose to vote by […]
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/08/03/rational-decisions-or-not/
Ethics
On Monday night, Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos will present a proposed code of ethics for Town Council and others in town government to live by. The timing of it, nearly a year after the Bill Strom shenanigans, strikes me as locking the barn door after the cow has wandered off. But it seems the proposal […]
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/05/07/ethics/
Burning a hole in her pocket
Some Town Council members are ready to spend tax dollars at the drop of a hat. Other council members want to examine expenditures carefully to gauge the need. Which one do you want making fiscal decisions in tight economic times? During the Town Council business meeting Monday, council member Sally Greene was ready to OK […]
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/04/13/burning-a-hole-in-her-pocket/
What’s wrong with learning more?
Council member Penny Rich started it. When it came time in the council meeting, that went on more than five and a half hours last night, to hear more information about negotiations with Orange County over its contribution to the library expansion, she spoke up: Issue the bonds now; talk later. That prompted council member […]
https://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/03/23/whats-wrong-with-learning-more/