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Topic: city Attorney Lance Baker
2009 brings new council members on board
By Turner McCullough Jr. | January 2, 2009 | 
The New Year is hardly launched and the city of Clarksville is basting in the glow of that newness. In the opening hours of New Year’s day 2009, new city council members and the city judge were present at City Council Chambers on Public Square to take their oaths of office and begin their terms of office. The council chambers were filled with family members, friends, well-wishers and attending city employees.
City Council 2009-2010
In a special session of the city council, Mayor John E. Piper convened the first meeting of the 2009-2010 city council for the purpose of administering the oath of office to newly elected/re-elected members of the council and the city judge. In what is indisputably the shortest of council meetings, this bi-annual swearing-in ceremony was a jubilant gathering for all. «Read the rest of this article»
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A Lon-n-ng night filled with confusion and a $32m development proposal!
By Turner McCullough Jr. | November 7, 2008 |
The November 6 City Council meeting proved to be an endurance marathon for council members and the attending public. Motions were offered, then amended, only to be immediately reconsidered and called back. Unfamiliarity and uncertainty over parliamentary procedure weighed down the proceeding, dragging the meeting into one of longest sessions in council’s history.
Clarksville Mayor Johnny Piper (file photo by Bill Larson)
There are no pictures to illustrate the drama that was the city council’s meeting last night. Those who attended (expecting a fairly normal session) and stayed the long course, including the council members themselves, were exhausted at the end of this marathon session. It felt as if we all had been in the Boston marathon, our energies totally drained. The meeting finally adjourned at close to 11 p.m., with a surprise proposal that upped the price of the marina and related redevelopment plans to $32 million dollars.
In chronological order, this is how the evening played out: «Read the rest of this article»
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