Tuesday’s meeting started off with a
request from Council Member Weaver to agendize three items. The most questionable was his call for an
investigation into the amount of time allotted for public speaking, formally
called Oral Communications. Weaver
stated that the average amount of talk time given in Southern California is
three minutes while Glendale offers the most generous amount of time, five
minutes. Weaver’s request might be taken
at face value as a simple tactic in speeding the often three to four hour
meetings along, but, with the strife documented between the council and regular
speakers at the podium this election season, it seemed as though Weaver was
declaring war on his biggest critics.