The Council meeting that couldn’t wait until Thursday.
, we've lamented and complained for decades about the City Council's weekly schedule, which puts their meetings on the day our print edition comes out, leaving us often guessing at what's going to happen, and sometimes out of date by the second day of our time on the stands. Council has ignored repeated requests that they move their meetings to better fit our schedule, and they persist in scheduling their regular meetings on Thursdays.
But this week we got the reverse situation: a story about the police contract and the city manager, and as it developed in twists and turns all week, it became clear that things were moving toward a climactic special called meeting on Wednesday, the day we send the paper to press. Except we didn't know what the story was going to be, or how much space Austin Sanders was going to need to tell it.
Austin's City Council may wake up tomorrow morning with the same sort of"what now?" feeling about today's actions – two bold decisions that both have the feel of driving a stake in the ground while simultaneously leaping off a cliff into the unknown.
Both were part of the same decision, as Cronk had pretty much staked his job on the four-year contract, and a large Council majority had run for office on a promise to be tougher in negotiating police oversight. But there are a lot of unknowns here – starting with whether an untenable number of police officers will opt to resign in a few days and whether the union will agree to the one-year extension, and ending with the legality and enforceability of the proposed APOA itself.
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