The Phoenix City Council Meeting

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The Phoenix City Council Meeting The Phoenix City Council meeting stood packed with attendees ranging from council men and women, lawyers, (basically elderly) interested citizens, neighborhood representatives, owners of businesses, and many others firm on playing a undeviating role in the due process of local government. The meeting began with an invocation from the pastor of a local church invited to pray by the Mayor Stanton. Then following was a pledge to the flag and then the mayor carries the motion. The Mayor reads for the council while passing them several agendas. This series of formalities set the tone for the arrangement and flow of the summit as a whole. Things steered quickly and professionally thanks to the succinct language of both the City Clerk and the Mayor, who led the agenda of the assembly. In general, each agenda entry was introduced by the Clerk, and then led through the agenda by Mayor, who asked for each item’s approval by the Council. The executive order of the agenda acted mostly as a general guideline, as the meeting swerved from the stated order with relative occurrence. Instead of a stringent order, the items seemed to be litigated first, in terms of how straightforwardly they might be permitted. Entire swathes of application were approved if the Council did not obtain any requests for dialogue concerning the item, and if the Council was expected to endorse the item unanimously. In theory, most of these items had already been hashed out in the various other committees through which any agenda item must pass before reaching the City Council. Following the transition of the speedy measures, the Clerk maneuvered back to the agenda items skipped in the earlier mass approval. In hardly any cases, such... ... middle of paper ... ...one the commercial development issues to make it clear to the council. The city manager was put to task on the information of the commercial development the city is doing. The motion was continued to the next formal to make answers that are more professional on the budget used to make fitness center. More elaboration on what the city is investing was also part of the issue that made the motion continue to the next sitting. In all, the Phoenix City Council assembly, as anticipated, covered a huge breadth of topics. From voting in the antidiscrimination law to liquor licenses to historical appellations, the meeting directly addressed planning in nearly all of its forms. Through the meeting, I understood the process of decision making in the city as they address the pressing issues in line with the opinions of the public while the council vetoes other decisions in.

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