Warning: Do not attend this meeting

On his first full day on the job, Mayor Brad Cole has called a Special City Council meeting for:

Tuesday, May 13, 2003
7:00 p.m.
Room 103 of the Civic Center
200 S. Illinois Avenue

Unless you are a member of City Council, do not, I repeat, DO NOT, attend this meeting. Here's why:

The meeting will be convened in open sesssion and the roll will be called, and then a motion will be passed to hold a closed session, and the meeting will be reconvened in open session in order to adjourn. So it would be possible to attend the meeting for a total of . . . oh . . . about 30 seconds. Oh, wait, it now takes the City Clerk longer than that to call the roll. So the public could only be present for about one minute! (Sounds like my kind of meeting.)

Speaking of the City Clerk...

What's wrong with that picture?

Did you see the photo in the print edition of Carbondale Times showing Mayor Cole being sworn in as Mayor? Where's the swearer-inner? I'll try to scan and post it, here.