In other news from Monday’s Pomona City Council meeting (most of the rest is in Wednesday’s column):

* Beforehand, Councilman Tim Saunders approached me and held out his arms, showing off the perfect fit of his suit’s sleeves. I had noted in a column that Saunders, who is known for his Hawaiian shirts, at his first meeting wore a suit with sleeves down to his fingertips. “After Mr. Blackwell here wrote his article,” Saunders joked, he bought four suits. I thanked him for being a good sport.

* Without comment, the council awarded a contract to Aramark to provide meals to prisoners at the city jail for $7.05 each per day. The wag sitting next to me circled that figure on his agenda and whispered, “You’d starve to death.”

I wondered why it’s $7.05. If prisoners get bread and water, maybe the nickel is for a slice of lemon.

* Sensitive students from the Claremont Colleges said they had witnessed police traffic checkpoints in Pomona, with one finding the spectacle “horrifying” and another saying solemnly, “We saw things we’d never seen before.” Which is, if memory serves, kind of the point of college.

* A grant application for checkpoint money was approved 6-1, but not without an hour-long discussion, and a minor dustup. Councilman Steve Atchley, whose remarks kept being interrupted by hecklers, finally said he found opponents’ arguments “specious.” “I’m not going to explain it,” he added. “You’re going to have to look it up.” Three people walked out in protest.

“It was a little condescending, I’ll admit it,” Atchley later told me sheepishly.

Well, it was a long night — the meeting lasted more than four hours. Groan. But I did get a column out of it.