“Things move a lot faster when Fred’s not here.”, joked Mayor Bill Floyd to a mostly empty room at tonight’s Decatur City Commission meeting.

Heck yeah they moved fast.  The Fred Boykin-less meeting lasted a cool 27 minutes tonight, certainly a near record in my time watching Commission meetings.  “Well, 27 minutes is a heck of a lot of time for a quorum of dagum politicians to get into trouble!”, I hear you say.

Well, you might think that, but you’d be wrong.

The Commission approved a temporary liquor license for Harbour Bar, called for the November 8th election (which Patti Garrett moved for, since the other three commissioners are up for reelection), gave CSD the go-ahead to raise their millage rate, and approved $39,300 to put in a few new sidewalk/crosswalk improvements along the new Safe Routes to School routes.

If you’re really jazzed by any and all of that, here’s a link to the agenda materials for a bit more info!