After seeing CM Barret Lane's frown-y face in the metro section this morning, I can see how "up to 34 hours @ $175/hr" has some appeal, but I wonder about the need to commit up to 34 hours of our CM's valuable time to what really amounts to hand-holding sessions. The 13-member council will be mighty busy and the council committees provide interesting small-group sessions, do they not?
It strikes me that doing the city's work will be the best therapy. Coping with personnel changes, agency reorganization, budget shortfalls, constituent pressure, and endless meetings from H**L will surely generate intense bonding and intuitive understandings, whatever the policy differences. And, oh my, the forces outside our borders. We will need to work together, as R.T. so eloquently suggests, elected people and citizens alike. No need for a therapist to get that point. Fred Markus Horn Terrace Ward Ten _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
