Baseball or the People's Business?

From the BCCT. I wonder how the Emperor and his minions will approach this?

I figure the discussion, re-discussion, clarification, re-clarification, and re-re-discussion (followed by a Q&A session) over Grandview student safety on the roads will take a good amount of time alone. And that's just one piece of new business. There's a whole lot of old business to clog up anyone's night.

Officials hope to steal home from meetings
Others plan to keep track of World Series games during meetings with cell phones and other devices.
By JOAN HELLYER

Harry Kramer has his game plan set for the Bensalem school board meeting scheduled to begin tonight, less than an hour before the first pitch in the first game of the World Series.

“I am going to try to get through that meeting as quickly as humanly possible, because I know people really want to see the Phillies,” said Kramer, the board president. “They don’t want to see our smiling faces on TV.”

Kramer admits he wants to get home in time to cheer on the Phils as they take on the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1, but promises the district’s operations won’t be a victim of his game plan.

“We’re going to do everything by the book,” Kramer said. “All the business is going to be covered 100 percent. However, it’s going to be done in an expedient manner.”

No such luck for other local government boards, like the Buckingham supervisors, who also meet tonight, according to Chairwoman Maggie Rash.

The Buckingham board, which is known for meetings that often run late into the night, has a full agenda. The supervisors plan to keep track of the game’s score with their iPhones and other electronic devices as they work their way through the township’s business, according to Rash.

Despite Phanatic support for the Phillies during the team’s quest to win the World Series, area government boards are generally keeping to their meeting schedules this week and next, officials said.

Some, like the Bensalem school board, will be able to wrap up business quickly.

Others, not so much. This group includes the Horsham council, which gets its first look at the municipality’s proposed 2009 municipal budget Monday night, said township Manager Mike McGee. That’s when Game 5 is scheduled to be played.

“There’s no tax increase because we have a significant carryover of surplus funds to next year,” the manager said, adding that he doesn’t expect the Monday night meeting to be a long, drawn-out process.

“I can’t imagine the meeting going past 9 o’clock, especially if the Phillies are playing, because then we’ll have very few residents here. Maybe we should make the agenda longer then,” McGee joked.

The Penndel Council also will review its proposed 2009 budget Monday night, said President Ward McMasters.

“It’s the way it goes. I can’t not have it. We’re going for it. At this point of the year, you don’t have a whole lot of choice, because you have a lot of things to get done,” McMasters said. “Besides, there may not even be a fifth game. So who knows? We may not even have to worry about it.”