Well, another month has passed and it’s another M&C Workshop and Council Meeting. I’m not certain a foreigner like me can actually grasp the difference between a “workshop session” and an actual meeting especially when they’re scheduled simultaneously, but I assume will be run in seriatim, to use an old-school Parliamentary or Robert’s Rules term, further assuming council meetings are actually run “in order“.
Anyway, what is there in the pipeline for an old boomer like me? I use that term ever since someone who should have known better, shouted at a bunch of we Seniors demonstrating in support of a speedy restoration for the Senior Center. Seniors, by the way, who had probably literally fought and demonstrated for every progressive cause since the fifties, and even before…
So what’s on the agendas? Workshop, and Council Meeting. Rather serendipitously a Proclamation noting “Older Americans Month 2022“ has been tabled, including a “WHEREAS the Borough Council wishes to express its appreciation for past and continuing contributions of its older residents to the community and to our nation, and recognize that older adults are a vital and growing part of Red Bank”, which although probably only half applies to me being a foreigner and all, but could have been done a couple of years ago by fixing the Senior Center then instead of it being run into the ground.
But approaching two and a half years later the council has just tabled a motion to go ahead with the repair and restoration so whether this is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end, let’s look forward to Red Bank once again having a thriving centre for the community, and its senior citizens again.
So what else awaits anyone who is prepared to spend hours wondering who else is on Zoom, whether the “host” is rigging the order of speakers, or just wondering what people are chewing that is so delicious.
Well, it’s May, so there are lots of notable special months, weeks and days which should be quite properly marked, although I was under the impression that every week is Police Week in Red Bank, but maybe that’s just my perception. Nevertheless, thank you for your Service, officers.
Then for some reason, the ad hoc “Broadwalk” committee proposal has been pulled, so it looks as if the project will continue to be the beautiful swan that turned into an unloved and ugly duckling by some sort of reverse osmosis, that Red Bank has spent the last couple of years perfecting. And then there’s the apparently superfluous Resolution No. 22-119, In Support of Clean Water, Healthy Families, Good Jobs… Like that has to be stated in Red Bank? Sadly, it does.
And, unless I missed it, no report on the much anticipated “hybrid” meeting protocol and implementation. Oh well.
