{"id":11082,"date":"2014-11-07T19:51:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T00:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11082"},"modified":"2014-11-07T19:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T00:51:22","slug":"randomthoughts-danville-city-council-meeting-1162014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/07\/randomthoughts-danville-city-council-meeting-1162014\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! &#8211; Danville City Council Meeting (11\/6\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of things\u00a0 happened at Thursday night&#8217;s Danville City Council meeting. Let&#8217;s think randomly about the bizarre night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s pull out a Big Board.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Confederate flag isn&#8217;t moving from the museum grounds&#8230; for now. This issue will resurface sooner or later.<\/li>\n<li>The flag supporters did not win the decision based of the merits of their argument. They won because of a legal technicality.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re not from Danville, your opinion about a Danville-centric issue isn&#8217;t going to carry as much weight as a Danville resident&#8217;s will.<\/li>\n<li>The Civil War, slavery, discrimination from the 1960&#8217;s and the lack of black characters in Disney movies have nothing to do with the flag issue.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re going to address City Council, talk to City Council. Don&#8217;t make your presentation to the audience because they&#8217;re not voting.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re going to address City Council, wear at least a nice golf shirt or more. Clothes make the presenter. Your image can either strengthen or destroy your point.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re going to address City Council, don&#8217;t wear a hat. Especially don&#8217;t wear a Confederate soldier&#8217;s hat.<\/li>\n<li>The people who raised their Confederate flags when flag opponents were speaking were jerks.<\/li>\n<li>A three-minute time limit for speakers works great when it doesn&#8217;t look like it was pulled out of your ass for one specific floor debate.<\/li>\n<li>A three-minute time limit for speakers works great when somebody actually enforces that three-minute time limit for speakers.<\/li>\n<li>Buddy Rawley doesn&#8217;t take \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 from anybody.<\/li>\n<li>Someday, James Buckner will say more than &#8220;Yes&#8221; or &#8220;No&#8221; during a council business meeting. Heh.<\/li>\n<li>Deputy City Manager Ken Larking hasn&#8217;t said anything during a council meeting in the last two months, though.<\/li>\n<li>Larry Campbell went rogue last night. His idea to go against the city attorney&#8217;s advice caught everybody off guard.<\/li>\n<li>Larry Campbell&#8217;s idea was a bad idea.<\/li>\n<li>Why did Sherman Saunders go along with Campbell&#8217;s idea in a failed effort? For the first time in a long while, Saunders actually weighed in on a floor debate (although with a meaningless &#8220;This is a no-win vote&#8221; remark). He offered no explanation on why he thought there should be an up\/down vote on the flag.<\/li>\n<li>I think there was enough votes on council last night to take the flag down if that had been an option with no potential legal consequences.<\/li>\n<li>Where was Tola Adamson &amp; WSET for this meeting? WDBJ, WSLS &amp; WGSR all had cameras there.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re going to leave the council chambers after your topic of interest has been discussed (and doing that is bad form), do it quietly. Don&#8217;t hang out in the echo chamber hallway and talk loudly.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s sad enough that one police officer is always on duty during the city council meetings, but I can understand that. Last night, we had two additional officers there.<\/li>\n<li>Sadly, people on both sides of the flag issue made threats against council members.<\/li>\n<li>I fully expected a recess after the flag issue was decided. That didn&#8217;t happen but the meeting turned into a Speed Round after that.<\/li>\n<li>I felt sorry for Angela Fowler. She had a very nice presentation and it was totally overshadowed by the flag issue.<\/li>\n<li>Danville&#8217;s Emergency Response Plan is over 500 pages long. Is there any surprise that plan is required by the federal government?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s some RandomThoughts about the meeting. Or was that a BreakDown? Ah, we&#8217;ll call it RandomThoughts!<\/p>\n<p>More coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of things happened at Thursday night&#8217;s Danville City Council meeting. 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