Mart Raudsepp wrote:
So my point is that the whole of the council should consider the objections of an individual council member, so that potentially bad things don't end up accepted based on some kind of an uninformed majority vote or concensus.
Probably the best way to accomplish something like this is for a council member to publish their no vote BEFORE the actual council meeting so that there is actually time to discuss it. The actual council meeting isn't really a great forum to resolve issues - there just isn't that much time.
I appreciate the fact that council members are avoiding huge amounts of back-and-forth on the mailing list, but waiting until the last minute for a surprise "no" vote isn't helpful either.
I think one of the great things Donnie has done for the council is to push the discussion into the mailing list well in advance of the meeting, and to defer issues that haven't gotten properly hashed out on-list. If something really needs interactive discussion that is one thing, but going into a topic cold just results in a lot of "shooting from the hip" and not much constructive progress.
