A meeting only North Enders could love

Published Apr 26 2006, 05:22 PM by Adam Reilly

[Deirdre Fulton guest-blogging.]

11:43 a.m.: Scapicchio calls the meeting to order --- it's his last city council meeting.

12:01 p.m.: I promise, not one interesting thing has happened. Sorry. All councilors have a copy of Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times on their desks. Was Lincoln so dull?

12:03 p.m.: They're so tired from being so boring that they're taking a recess.

12:09 p.m.: Flaherty puts forth a bid to hold the National League of Cities 2012 conference here in Boston.

12:11 p.m: Scapicchio gets a plaque and a standing ovation. "I will certainly miss being a member of the BCC. It's been a great ride, it's been a great eight years....We're in a really good place in the city, and we've got some great leadership, some great minds --- far greater than mine --- here on this council." The high point of his tenure: getting water fountains fixed in the North End.

12:15 p.m.: Flaherty: "Sadly, the Young Turks just got a little younger."

12:20 p.m.: Council adjourning in memory of former city councilor Tony Crayton (among others).

Keller on "Saint Patrick and his Devils"

St. Patrick, indeed

6 Comments

Tony Schinella said:

It's Tony "Crayton" not Creighton. And he was a pretty good guy too.

April 27, 2006 1:07 AM
Media Watch said:

Another NLC Convention? Well, we had them in 1988 and 2000 so 2012 is right on track. Of course, both years were depressing in terms of presidential elections, hope 2012 is better.

April 27, 2006 2:15 AM
dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu said:

The Council needs another vendor of stenographic services. The current vendor doesn't have the new technology for closed captioning of public meetings for people with hearing loss. The debate and remarks of councilors need to be made available as the public record.

April 27, 2006 12:41 PM
dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu said:

Councilor Flaherty should be held to greater accountability for the many violations of FOI Freedom of Information principles, public records principles, open government principles at our Boston City Council. Council staff routinely deflect, delay, deny enquiries for public information about Council proceedings, transactions.

April 27, 2006 12:50 PM
Deirdre said:

Sorry about misspelling Anthony Crayton's name. It's fixed now.

April 27, 2006 1:54 PM