Apparently, the Answer is "No."

It's still a little bumpy at Commission meetings.  Ginny O'Halpin is still trying to get her rhythm and sense of command, and she gets help from various places.  To help herself, she relies more than is necessary on some of the suppressing methods of her predecessor.  I'm thinking particularly of her reliance on the three minute public comment clock.  Mac Kennedy, too, is a little more reliant on stringency than I thought he would be.  I'm not complaining.  I'm just making note.  Attorney John Herin is a lot of help.  Acting manager David Hernandez is less help than he thinks he is.  Roxy Ross was seated for the first meeting of her supposedly short fill-in term.  (I really hope she reconsiders, and runs in November, but it doesn't seem like she's willing to do it.)  She provided some grounding, too.  Although she and Ginny and Dan Samaria were having more inaudible pow-wows than they really should have, and it was a bit distracting.  Dan, by the way, is back from abdominal surgery, and he was close to fully functional.  He seemed a bit lost many times, but that happens to him sometimes anyway.

Will Tudor showed up.  Good, no one took my bet.  I would have lost.  Will is the last remaining Mohican, and his continued involvement on the Commission is a mystery.  If it was never about anything before (it never was), it's about even less now.  Betsy Wise pressed the "eject" button on herself, and Jenny Johnson-Sardella wasn't far behind.  With all the drama and disruption that had to accompany it, Her Royal Highness, the Empress Tracy (Big Mama) Truppman made her own dramatic exit.  It was complete with rumors that Tracy claimed to think her life was in danger, and undercurrent concerns that she might sue the Village (for who knows what).  And if she really might have, then she might still.  Whatever that could possibly turn out to be about.

So, as the dust was finally settling, and Will Tudor was either walking out of meetings, or missing them, I sent him an e-mail.  I asked him to do the right thing, and resign.  I asked him to do this just after Tracy resigned, and we thought we would have to have an election anyway, and it would be convenient to fill two seats, instead of just one.  But I never heard back from Will.  One theory was that since he no longer had a role or any identifiable meaning at Commission meetings, he would just run out the clock, continue to fail to show up at meetings until the Commission expelled him for too many unexcused absences, and he'd keep getting those checks from his neighbors' money for the extra few months.  But no, for who knows what reason, Will did show up last night.  The result of his being there or his not being there was the same thing, but he was there.

The meeting started with mention of Roxy Ross' return.  We were happy to have her back.  And because Roxy was there as a new Commissioner, we again voted for mayor.  Roxy nominated Ginny, who was already mayor, and no one nominated anyone else.  We now have a five person Commission.  And the vote to keep Ginny mayor was...4-1.  It didn't make any sense for Will to vote "no" on Ginny's election, and it didn't accomplish anything, but that's what Will chose to do.  It's true we "don't have [Tracy Truppman] to kick around any more," but Will made sure we didn't forget her.

And then, we had the big, big event of the evening.  Some of us wondered if Krishan Manners would show up to defend himself, or if he'd just fall on the sword Tracy carefully left sticking up for him.  He showed up.  It took us a good long time to rehash all the ugly material that was settled on Krishan.  And I know it wasn't Krishan's fault.  I know none of it was his idea.  Tracy Truppman, and her first lieutenant, Rebecca Rodriguez, set him up.  But he always did what his Mama told him to do.  And I always rooted for him not to.  But he needed his Mama, and that job, and that paycheck, a lot more than he needed to please me, or to make himself look like the decent person I know he really is.  So, it was one bad act after another.  And Krishan's assertions that nothing anyone said he did was true.  The end of it was that Roxy Ross made a motion to fire Krishan with cause (no settlement paid to him), and someone or other seconded.  And the vote was...4-1.  Will voted "no," and he did what anyone would have expected him to do.  He made empty excuses, and he threatened that firing Krishan would expose the Village to some unspoken legal jeopardy.  He was Tracy's boy, and he tried to defend Tracy's indefensible pet.

The rest of the meeting accomplished too little, and it took too long to do it.  We extended the meeting time twice.  Once, we extended from 11:00 to 11:30, and then, when we ran out of our extra 30 minutes, we extended for another 10.  And at that, we had several noteworthy agenda items untouched, so we have to have another meeting next week or the week after.  See you then?