The Jackson City Council announced it will hold a meeting of the Legislative Committee tomorrow to discuss the recently passed HB# 1677, otherwise known as the Jackson Metro Water authority bill.
Let the tantrums begin.
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6 comments:
See y’all in 10 years after multiple trips to the 5th circuit.
Is there any possible reason, other than grift, that COJ is not happy that headache has been taken off their hands?
The way Rep Yates structured this (in her bowing to Mayor Hohrn's 'desires') all the Council has to do is not vote to approve a lease. Hopefully that's the attitude they will take in this meeting, deciding that they don't want to cede responsibility to an independent authority. Might lead to Tater deciding to veto bill, or else sign it but call a special session (as some of the legislative leaders are asking and have provided with their extension of the current session) to change the language in this bill to the city "shall" lease the facility, rather than the authority "can" do so.
This needs to be resolved. The City has no business attempting to operate the water/sewer system - hell, they can't even run the other parts of the city the way it was left for this administration by Lumumba. The smart folks in the city governing folks know that the best thing for the city would be to shed themselves of this albatros; problem is, a few of those smart folks can't afford the political pushback so they won't take that stance publically. They need to grow a set and stand up and speak ------ loudly, and acknowledge that this would be a benefit to the city. But just like the zoo, they don't have, (well, as I said above they need to grow them so obviously they don't presently have them, so I can skip it) the cojones to do what needs to be done. Maybe a trip to Cracker Barrell and getting some Powdermile Biscuits would help them out of this paradox (credit to Prarie Home Companion).
@4:52 the political headache the Sisters of Rukia will cause is one reason
Basically a Committee of One because beyond Foote the other three are functionally useless. Can you imagine either Pudgy or Parkinson making a big decision? LMAO
Hubris, power, ego.
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