Editor’s Note: This article is complete. The BreakDown article is now published.
I’m not expecting much to come out of this meeting, but SouthsideCentral will be there anyway. Be sure to refresh the page for the latest happenings, photos and commentary.
Our LIVE! coverage will start around 5:30 PM. Since it’s a closed session with legal counsel, don’t expect much. This may turn into a City Hall RandomThoughts! type of article.
We’re underway. The coal ash attorneys are here. That’s tonight’s topic.
Everyone is here except Alonzo Jones tonight. They’re still eating, so we’re not called to order yet.
We’re underway and immediately into closed session so I’m out in the hallway.
Main Street Coffee Emporium food is delicious!
6:00 PM – 15 minutes into the closed session. No changes. Hello, Corrie Teague! She just came out of Economic Development Director Telly Tucker’s office.
We’re back. No, we’re not. Just a bathroom break. At 6:20 PM, the closed session continues.
The hustle and bustle of Downtown Danville is wild tonight.
6:35 PM – Sources tell me this meeting will keep going for another hour. That has to mean that this settlement is coming soon. Council is doing another closed session next Thursday night before their regular session.
7;05 PM – The lights go out in the hallway, then back on 3 minutes later. Now they’re back off.
7:25 PM – Lights out and on again. Telly Tucker finally goes home for the night. I like that guy. He’s rebuilding the Economic Development office from the Job Bust state it was in before.
7:40 PM – Larry Campbell leaves the meeting. By the way, City Manager Joe King, Deputy City Manager Ken Larking, and City Clerk Sue Demasi are also in the closed session.
7:45 PM – If this lawyer bills by the hour, he could make more money than Danville will get. These lights have to be on a motion sensor. I’m on a quest to find it. I found it!
8:40 PM – We’re done. No comment from attorneys, as I expected.
OK. We’re done here. We’ll have a BreakDown article coming up tonight.
You should see downtown on a quiet night! !!
ghost lights 😉
May as well do some “thumbs” while you are waiting!
The Courthouse lights are all on motion sensors, so it wouldn’t surprise me to know they have done the same next door. To be honest, I dislike that. It’s eerie on an overcast day to walk through the courthouse at 3 PM and have the lights be dimmed…like a low budget horror movie. The energy savings is very likely worth my slight creep out factor, though.
Could they be sneaking in any discussion of the utilities overtime fraud during this closed session? That would be appropriate closed session material. Of course, you probably don’t necessarily want to be paying your environmental law hired gun during that time.
I don’t think there’s any city issue on the overtime. Employees disciplined, fired and prosecuted.
I meant in terms of things like reporting to council things like the losses, the new controls for making sure it doesn’t happen again, stuff like that.
And that should be in open work session. “What did they know and when did they know it?” had better be answered to the public
eye am tired of hearing about coal ash spill…time to move on…………..
Not a chance until they shake money out of Duke Energy.
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