As Brutus reported on ElPasoSpeak, City Council will have a special meeting this Wednesday February 16 at 8 a.m. [Apparently I don’t know how to use a calendar.]
At the zoo.
The stated objective of the meeting is Discussion and action on the update of the Strategic Plan: Goals for the City.
Let’s see, Wednesday Thursday at 8 at the zoo? It’s kind of like they were trying to slip one past us. Like they hoped no one would notice.
Like, if they could, they would have had it at midnight at Kilbourne’s Hole, except that would have looked suspicious.
What do you suppose they’re going to discuss?
I’ve got a couple of theories. My first is that they’re going to discuss a junket to Disneyland to look at Main Street U.S.A., to get an idea of what El Paso should look like. They’ll probably lease some private jets from our local billionaires, and they’ll need at least three, to avoid a quorum.
My second theory is that they want to discuss the deplorable financial condition of the City, and they’d rather discuss it far from the prying eyes of the uninformed public. Because, as you know (or maybe not), ignorance is bliss. Why bother the voters with the boring details of massive debt and impending tax increases?
Remember, half the current City Council has been in office for eight years, when the City’s economic performance has, by any measure except sales tax receipts, tanked or flatlined. And now that the value of the peso is falling dramatically, sales tax receipts are falling also.
But look at the bright side. Things are worse in Venezuela.
Main street USA. Hilarious.