Record night?

So on  Tuesday, election night, I thought I would be at my council meeting for at least an hour and miss out on some of the early reporting from the elections. But turns out the council was just as eager as me to get back to the television.

They completed their meeting in 14 minutes, according to a resident in attendance who was keeping track. That same resident mentioned to my colleague, David Allen, and myself that the previous record to his knowledge had been 29 minutes.

The funny thing was during the public comments of the meeting the city was criticized by a resident about the length of the meetings .

"Our meetings are getting shorter and shorter," Slyvester Brooks told the council.

Brooks said he had devised a plan to be able to get the meetings to go on longer, "start paying you by the hour."

The meetings were ending so quick that apparantly Brooks said they weren't even giving him enough time to get his second cup of coffee or cookie.

But Brooks wasn't completely upset with the council, he recognized that the lengths of the meetings had to do with the fact that the ciy, he said was really efficient.

I can't wait to see what he might say at the next meeting about this meeting.