The Kyle Report

The Kyle Report

Monday, December 19, 2016

City Council to meet Thursday to mollify the mob

The City Council has scheduled a special meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday so that it can huddle in executive session in hopes of coming to some sort of agreement on City Manager Scott Sellers’s contract that will keep Sellers in Kyle until he retires and possibly satisfy the uninformed lynch mob that scuttled an earlier innovative, forward-looking deal that was in the city’s best possible interest.

Don’t expect any details of the contract to emerge from Thursday’s meeting because all the discussions will take place in a closed, executive session and, according to the meeting’s agenda, "No action will be taken on items discussed in executive session."

So there.

What will happen is that if an agreement with Sellers is reached Thursday — and it would be in the best possible interest of the city if that happens — then the details of the deal (1) will be placed in written contract form, (2) will be posted for public consumption and misinterpretation and (3) acted upon at a council meeting early next year, hopefully as early as the council’s first available meeting date on Jan. 3.

About the only thing public that will take place during the session will be gaveling the meeting to order, roll call, the pledge of allegiance, and a citizens comment period, and hopefully the local loonies won’t make another appearance for that period. After that the council will relocate to the second floor of City Hall to work on the contract particulars in private. Before too many people get all in an uproar, closed meetings to discuss contract negotiations such as this are mandated by state law.

The council meeting will kick off what could easily be eight hours of executive sessions divided between the council and the Housing Authority Board, the latter of which has scheduled a meeting for 5:45 p.m. Thursday during which it will seclude itself to interview prospective candidates to serve as the authority’s interim director.

The road goes on forever and the party never ends.

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