City Council Meeting: Blog

Today I watched the Minneapolis City Council regular meeting, which lasted about an hour. It was almost entirely procedural, including moments when council members had to check with each other about what procedure for voting a certain item in was the right one. Meaning, there were no fireworks, just lots of roll-calls and a few in-jokes. Boring? Yes, but helpful in showing the architecture, the structure of how a city is run, the framework without the furniture. Which made me think about the role of rules and structure in the maintenance of power. And made me think about how to make this piece so that the script is procedure, architecture and custom.