Housing Authority Board meeting cancelled

Eight days ago I wrote, in a story about the Kyle Housing Authority Board, it had "guaranteed no one will attend its next meeting which it scheduled at the same time as two of the traditional New Year’s Day college football bowl games." A couple of days ago, the city’s website posted the notice that this meeting had been cancelled.

Do I think what I wrote had anything to do with this cancellation? Of course not. No way. No how. I don’t even think the meeting was cancelled because board members discovered no one would attend the meeting. Frankly, I don’t think the members of that board give a flying fig if anyone shows up for their meetings or not. These four board members come across to me as four professionals trying to get a job done and done well and who have absolutely no desire to be in the spotlight.

More than likely what happened is that one or more of these professionals checked their calendar and realized "What we’re we thinking when we scheduled this meeting for Jan. 2, the day many Americans will be celebrating as the de facto New Year's Day holiday? I’ve got other things I want to do that evening as well. Besides, it’s not like we’re shirking anything. We’ve been meeting every week for the last month. What other city volunteer committee can claim to equal that work schedule?"

Not only that, these professionals had the decency to cancel the meeting in advance, unlike members of the Board of Adjustments or the Planning & Zoning Commission who are too self-centered to act accordingly and, instead, simply don’t show up for a planned meeting, denying that body a quorum and wasting everybody else’s time in the process.