Yesterday I received an email from the assistant city manager rescheduling my presentation.
I was supposed to give a presentation last Tuesday to the council's F & A Committee.
A couple of hours prior to the meeting's scheduled start time I received an email that the meeting had been cancelled. That happens from time to time.
Did a little digging though to find out what happened. Michelle Distler, the chairperson of the committee had a conflict. A very important conflict. Apparently the Kansas Department of Health and Environment was having a public meeting concerning the environmental clean up of the old Ken Smith Golf Club and factory which apparently has contaminated ground on the property. To her credit, Ms Distler has been involved in this since prior to her ever becoming a member of the Shawnee City Council. On top of that the KDHE originally scheduled the meeting to be held in Topeka which would have been very inconvenient for the Shawnee citizens living in the area, and wishing to attend the meeting. So she got the KDHE to move the meeting to Shawnee.
OK, now that leaves three members of the committee available (two make a quorum). Whoops, another one is out of the picture.......Cheryl Scott. Did she cancel out even before Ms Distler?
Apparently so. What was the reason for her not being able to make it? When I asked Distler if she knew why Scott wasn't going to be there , she didn’t know. Was she in her new home in Arizona? Commuting only for council meetings and not committee meetings? Would be interesting to find out.
OK, now that leaves two of the committee members. Aparently after hearing that Distler & Scott were not going to be there, Goode who was already at city hall cancelled out. So that unfortunately caused a late cancellation of the meeting and for my presentation to be postponed until the April 20th, Public Works and Safety Committee. Come to that meeting if you’re interested in hearing it.
