By Bill Connell, Somerset.
The Township Council makes hundreds of decisions a year. Many people come to meetings for the sideshow of public session and then leave, but the best part is the Consent agenda. This is where you start to understand what it takes to keep the town running. I have been to more than a few meetings where a lively public session is followed by a far more important issue that goes unnoticed being voted on, that is on the consent agenda.
Public Session is tricky. More often than not, the most vested and polarized opinions, the ones with skin in the game, come to the microphone. Council has to step back and sort through it all. I watch closely at the process Council people use to arrive at their decision and vote.
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