Dillingham Haggblom

City Annexation—01/27/10

The workshop on this evening included the materials needed to draft the petition.  Consultant Sheinberg was present.  After 10 months of meetings about this topic, with the last one resulting in just water being annexed, council member Keggy Tubbs brought up annexing land again.  He wondered if adding land in addition to water would make it more appealing to the Local Boundary Commission.  I was horrified that land annexation would rear it’s ugly head again at this late date in the development of the petition, but there it was, and of course, it was Tubbs—the same council member who forgot to take two minutes of his time in 09/04 to fix faulty language in the bite section of the animal ordinance and part of the reason my dog was deemed dangerous to society (have we noticed all the loose dogs below, Mr. Tubbs?).  Consultant Sheinberg reiterated that it was a good plan with just water, and including land would not make it more appealing to the LBC.  By the next day, she would have the rest of the information she needed from city department heads to prepare the petition, and the council would have to decide what tax to use for the final document.  The land bit was hopefully forever nixed from this petition.  The next workshop would be Monday, 02/08/10, before the city council meeting on Thursday, 02/11/10, for their vote.