{"id":11325,"date":"2014-11-22T00:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T05:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11325"},"modified":"2014-11-22T01:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T06:08:42","slug":"breakdown-danville-city-council-11182014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/22\/breakdown-danville-city-council-11182014\/","title":{"rendered":"BreakDown: Danville City Council (11\/18\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We told you what happened at Tuesday&#8217;s Danville City Council meeting LIVE!, but let&#8217;s do a BreakDown on what really happened.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BreakDown articles are analysis and opinion. They&#8217;re served up best on a Big Board!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nobody ever attends and no other media covers the committee on Appointments, but they can be interesting. There&#8217;s a large shortage of people that have applied to serve on the various city boards and commissions, and that&#8217;s sad.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s always great to see Dolores Reynolds and Harold Garrison attending every meeting. More people should attend council meetings, even if you have nothing to say.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re attending a council meeting because you have something to say, be polite and don&#8217;t walk out once your issue has been addressed. GAH!<\/li>\n<li>I was surprised to see Avon Keen in the audience and wondered if he was going to speak on the Confederate Flag issue. He didn&#8217;t speak and left during the recess.<\/li>\n<li>Duke Energy&#8217;s Davis Montgomery simply Gets It. He&#8217;s not flustered by any council members that try to bash him. that makes those bashers even madder&#8230; and I love it.<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Dooley, Danville Regional Medical Center&#8217;s interim CEO, is a very nice guy. He&#8217;s just sitting on the third row and smiling 45 minutes before the meeting starts. I have never been used to seeing the hospital&#8217;s CEO without Leslie Smith one step behind him. And of course, she assumed that position 15 minutes later. Heh.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s amazing how certain people are called up to speak first at the public comment section of meetings where there are going to be a lot of speakers.<\/li>\n<li>Speaker after speaker on the same topic gets boring and boring and boring and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.<\/li>\n<li>My favorite line of the anti-demolition speakers was from Steven Wilson. He said &#8220;I operated Luna Technologies until it went bankrupt&#8221;. Well, that explains why you don&#8217;t operate it anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Am I the only one that notices that the historic houses on the chopping block get a lot better looking the closer they are to Main Street? Nobody seems to give a damn about the wrecking ball knocking crap houses down on Claiborne Street.<\/li>\n<li>Even though his speech was good, the guy who moved here from the UK looked like the Michelin Man with his heavy winter coat on.<\/li>\n<li>Gus Dyer goes in front of the Planning Commission and City Council with all of his real estate venture talks. I&#8217;d actually pay attention if\u00a0 he and his real estate ventures <em><strong>WOULD PAY THE OVER $30,000 IN BACK REAL ESTATE TAXES THAT HE OWES THE CITY<\/strong><\/em>! Yeah, seriously. Over $30,000.<\/li>\n<li>It may infuriate a lot of people, but I&#8217;m starting to love Cara Burton&#8217;s (the director of the museum) attitude. She&#8217;s obviously into historical preservation so she spoke to Council. I could feel the cold reaction from the room because she remained silent throughout the Confederate flag issue but it didn&#8217;t bother her one bit. Well played.<\/li>\n<li>I do think that the historic homes should be preserved, but who&#8217;s going to pay for them? And why are we being pushed to panic stage now when very little has been done in the past 5 to 7 years?<\/li>\n<li>Clarke Whitfield is the City Attorney for a reason&#8230; he knows the city code. It was amusing to hear Gary Miller try lots of scenarios to push a demolition moratorium idea and then hear Whitfield say no, no and no.<\/li>\n<li>Thank god for recesses. Thank god for 10 minute recesses that last 20 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>William Gentry is beginning to own the city. Restaurants, mini-storage buildings and an industry. Ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; wrong with that, though. He&#8217;s doing it with his own money.<\/li>\n<li>The council chambers will now have &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; displayed. I believe the old version said &#8220;In Kevin Liao &amp; GOK We Trust&#8221;. How&#8217;d that work out?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s the BreakDown. 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