Live Blogging from City Council: Mobility Fee Moratorium

[TheCat]

Kim is speaking to the new speaker, Beth.

Kim, still unintelligible: uh, do you believe in doubt that's reasonable...reasonable doubt? Do you believe in that?

Speaker: yes, no, we have it...? no, we don't? What?

Kim: Do you believe a person is innocent until proven guilty?

Speaker: XYZ court case proves Ahmed's guilty.

Kim: That case was overturned (i summarize. Kim's version was about ten minutes long).

[ProjectMaximus]

Lots of pro moratorium stickers in the city council meeting tonight. Opponents of the moratorium, if you came to the last council meeting and thought you didn't need to come tonight, turns out you do after all. If you are not here already, and can make it, please come ASAP. If you don't want to speak, fill out a speaker card, mark opposed to 2013-94, and just write you don't want to speak.

Ugh. There in spirit from Alabama...

Please I hope they let the intelligent people speak too!

[thelakelander]

I'm in the Southside with my kids.  I was coming but a family situation came up as I was walking out the door.  I'm still trying to come but if I make it, I'll be late.

[Tacachale]

I'm stuck at work too. What was the breakdown of the Ahmed vote?

[TheCat]

I don't have the break down.

[ProjectMaximus]

Dammit. That's three of the intelligent people MIA

[thelakelander]

Unfortunately, I'm not being paid to be there and no one above me is forcing me to show up in a sticker.  Thus, every now and then, I have to tend to Mr. Dad type responsibilities.  For what its worth, I'll be at the DIA's mobility fee meeting on Friday.

[tufsu1]

Well said Ennis...sadly I'm also not there, as somebody (no conspiracy) paid me to be out of town

[Tacachale]

According to jax.com, the breakdown on Parvez Ahmed was:

For: Greg Anderson, Bill Bishop, Lori Boyer, Reginald Brown, Richard Clark, John Crescimbeni, Kimberly Daniels, Johnny Gaffney, Bill Gulliford, Warren Jones, Stephen Joost, Denise Lee and Jim Love

Against: Doyle Carter, Ray Holt, Robin Lumb, Don Redman, Matt Schellenberg and Clay Yarborough

Make note of this.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2013-02-26/story/parvez-ahmed-reappointment-jacksonvilles-human-rights-commission#ixzz2M3DteRNC

[Bridges]

The New Black Panthers just gave a very rousing speech. 

Should probably clarify that it wasn't about the mobility fee.

[Cheshire Cat]

Holt, Redman and Yarborough will all be termed out. Voters should remember their voting records if they should run for another political office.  Holt and Yarborough undoubtedly will.  Carter, Lumb and Schellenberg will still be able to run for re-election to their current seats on council.  The citizens of Jacksonville need to start thinking now about whether they want to see these people continue on council and be ready to find and support another candidate otherwise history shows us, they will walk right in to another term.

[thelakelander]

I missed it. What was this young lady's event about that was planned for the library?

[TheCat]

Lee was trying to get to the bottom of it and Bishop wants to see the flyer. Ah, it's about a Black History event.

[Cheshire Cat]

Looks like she will get satisfaction.  It sounds like she got some "attitude" from the library director.

[TheCat]

She wanted to hold a black history event at a public library and she was told that the library does not hold these types of events.