A quick note: All five members of city council voted to accept the report by the Charter Review Commission, although Randy Leonard made it clear that that didn’t necessailry mean he was going to vote to refer the recommendations to voters.

As the mayor said, “there sure was a lot of discussion.” Unfortunately, the way the process is working, the discussion hasn’t been primarily about the city’s form of government, or its relationship to PDC, but mostly about whether city council has a responsibility to send the recommendations to the voters.

Erk Sten and Randy Leonard remained adamant in their opposition to the recommendations, and denied the mayor’s and Saltzman’s arguments that a campaign is the best way to get a public discussion going, saying that campaigns are a terrible place for honest information—for expensive, misleading sound bytes, though, they’re terrific.

Plus, as Amanda Fritz put it, “My only input as a citizen will be to vote yes or no.”

The recommendations will undergo further discussion on February 7—my hunch is that a vote will be scheduled for the following week.

More later, as the hearing was full of great bits.