Category: council briefing

Today was the last Council Briefing and full City Council meeting for the year — and also the last ones for Council President Gonzalez to chair. This afternoon’s meeting had forty agenda items, and went nearly four hours as the Council wrapped up its work for the year.

The Councilmembers picked up the pace today, and speedily cranked through their agendas.

As the City Council tries to wrap up its work for the year, here’s what it got up to today.

With one week left in the budget process, and one month left before the Council goes on its December recess, the Councilmembers’ agendas are getting short and focused and the meeting schedule is filling in with several last-minute committee meetings..

Council President Gonzalez was absent today, an absence that was planned and announced before last Tuesday’s election, and Councilmember Strauss was the designated President-pro-tem to chair today’s meetings. Other than a tense back-and-forth with Councilmember Sawant when he tried to encourage her to wrap up her remarks twenty minutes into a speech this morning, things went smoothly for him. Here’s what else happened. A good chunk of this morning’s Council Briefing, as well as a public hearing in this afternoon’s Council meeting, were devoted to a proposed alley vacation for the Grand Street Commons mixed-use project that will feature 360 …

This afternoon the Council wrapped up most of its pre-budget business; from here on the Monday meetings should get pretty short until December. Here’s what went down today.