If I Had Hair, I'd Be Pulling It Out.

No wisecracks, Mac.

We had a Commission meeting tonight.  They simply don't know what they're doing.  And they lurch from one position to another, depending on who gave the last piece of advice.

The big topics were 6th Avenue and the sanitation program (what is currently the WastePro contract).  It was really just maddening.

We have no idea what we're going to do about 6th Avenue, or what we want, or what the state will allow.  And we'll have a, um, workshop.  Yeah, a workshop.  That's a good delaying tactic, isn't it?

As for WastePro, the Commission simply could not marshall itself into pursuing any kind of meaningful direction.  The result?  Another contract extension (six months), presumably at an even higher price, for something almost no one wants any more.  Mac Kennedy's summary was: "kicking the can down the street again, guys.  Not good.  Not good."

Help!  Is it November 3 yet?  And we're in such desperate need of a competent manager.  Do you realize we haven't had one since the beginning of 2017?

The only two other things worth mentioning are about the question of restoring Commission meetings in person, and Dan Samaria's second thoughts about choosing a manager.

Regarding the first, the so-called governor of Florida has ended the concession that municipal meetings don't have to occur in person, and the end, according to this so-called governor, is November 1.  The so-called governor is Ron DeSantis, or Governor Ron DeSantis, or Mr Ron DeSantis.  He is not Dr Ron DeSantis.  He has no idea what he's talking about, and he has demonstrated consistently that he does not care about the lives of the residents of Florida.  So the new arrangement, which doesn't make any sense, is that meetings can happen if a quorum is present in the meeting room, and other elected officials can participate virtually.  As can the non-elected public.  The question, then, will become which three Commissioners have to risk their health and possibly life, because Ron DeSantis does not know what he's doing, and does not care.

Dan Samaria now claims that when he agreed to a meeting on October 23 regarding the new manager, he thought he was agreeing only to a "workshop."  You remember workshops.  They're gatherings where nothing happens, and nothing is expected, but sponsors can pretend they paid attention to something.  Dan presents that his vote was wrong at the last meeting, and no doubt, someone told him he voted wrong.  Now, Dan is back in the order that someone demands of him, and he was able to join his pals, Ginny O'Halpin and Will Tudor, to delay the solution to our second biggest problem.  (The biggest problem is an aimless, careless, reckless, and mindless Commission majority, and the second biggest problem, which is a complication of the biggest problem, is that we don't have competent management.  Why this is satisfactory to Dan, Ginny, and Will, is a total mystery.)  By the way, while we continue to delay choosing a manager, our preferred candidates are finding other jobs.  So the longer we take, the more likely we're going to have to redo the whole process, or settle for someone we don't favor.  Because the majority of our elected, and paid, officials can't bring themselves to do anything.

Over 4 1/2 hours, if you were wondering.  Don't ask me how.  I don't know.