Reflective Minutia
Apparently last week's musing about the backlog of Pasadena council meeting minutes was not malformed pattern recognition.
At the end of last night's meeting, just before the moment all media had been waiting for, there was a brief dispute over what exactly the council had agreed to re: Heritage Square at its May 21 meeting. (Video from last night not posted yet.)
As the council adopted a gaggle of minutes-past, Mayor Bill Bogaard said after reading page seven, he "had a feeling the minutes may not be reflective of the action that was taken."
Victor Gordo, who made the compromise motion that night, concurred, and suggested the minutes should be amended as per the mayor's suggestion.
"My understanding of your motion at that time was that we enter into a pre-negotiation," Chris Holden, who seemed suspicious of trickery.
"I also had some confusion when I read this," Margaret McAustin.
By making the amendment "are we saying these are incorrect?" Jacque Robinson.
After five minutes of uncertain debate, they all agreed to the changes. The draft minutes were not available, nor was the amended language at the time I sprinted out to make it back to the newsroom.
Bill did refer to the development as "Heritage Square" despite the fact -- as I've heard -- that term would be retired after complaints from the Heritage Square down alongside the Pasadena Freeway.
But then again, the Falun Gong people didn't follow through with referring to China's float in the Rose Parade as the "GENOCIDE FLOAT!