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First up, hold the salt as Quincy’s City Council meeting this past Monday featured several unusual — If not highly unusual — events. 

Highly unusual events.

For starters, the public was allowed time to respectfully address their concerns and opinions, something which will be allowed at all city council meetings going forward.  

Such public comment forums are codified in city policies to happen at least one a month, however, rarely more than two such public forums a year have happened during the overawing, controlling, and long-ongoing reign of the Koch Maladministration.

“I wanted more information.”
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Next up was an explanation by the only male at Large city councillor as to why he undertook his highly as well as widely criticized tabling of the public comment proposal and so delayed for a council meeting formal codifying of open forums as a matter of course at every city council meeting as opposed to per the current transitional allowance of comment at the discretion of the City Council president..  

His explanation: he wanted more information. 

So what, apparently; for the fact that more information, debate, and possible revisions to proposed items is supposed to happen when matters undergo committee hearings.

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At the same time, this councillor did not offer up any explanation as to why he tabled and so also delayed five other items from consideration.

Needless to say, time will tell if this attempt to undo the political seppuku committed during the previous council meeting display can be undo as regards this councillor’s long-known ambitions for scoring higher office.

Next up, among other business on the council’s agenda was scheduling time for city officials to address and be asked questions by council members about the Koch Maladministration’s response to the recent snow event which blanked Quincy with snow.  

A parental Snow Daze libation
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That and likely address the local public schools calling for two Snow Days and so causing four days of Snow Daze for local parents with school age children.

Needless to say, the variable responses to the storm as well as still continuing snow clearing efforts, questions are sure to be numerous as well as likely at times pointed.

For example, potential questioning about possible short-comings include rumored paying premium pay at times when regular pay should have been the case as well as apparently running out of road salt shortly after Mayor Koch announced that the city had ample supplies of road salt on hand.

And further as regards the salt, where did it go as Quincy’s streets do not make one think of what Romans did to ancient Carthage?

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