Thread by @FrederickMelo

None of these Planning Commission/Port Authority/Advisory Committee on Aging/Neighborhood Star/Board of Zoning Appeals/CAAPB appointments ever strike me as "front page" worthy but I always feel like I should tell somebody when they get made. You're somebody. Now you know! #Stpaul

Please tag yourself, your friend or someone who should never, ever have been appointed, how the $Q#%5w6!! did they get on there?

Council Member Dai Thao has asked for 1-week delay ("layover") on following appointments "for clarification": "Approving Mayor’s appointment of Roxanne Draughn and Walter Battle to a 4-year term on the Neighborhood STAR Board. Libby Kantner and Richard Holst to Planning Commish

Council Member Dai Thao reads a letter from the Frogtown Neighborhood Association requesting that the next Planning Commission member appointment be a person of color. Their letter states their recommendation was never appointed.

Brendmoen disagrees with delaying appointments of Holst, Kantner. East Side businessowner of color has withdrawn her candidacy. Tolbert: "I don't see why we would hold this one up. All of us on this council know Libby particularly well." She'd been council aide to 2 offices.

Council Member Mitra Jalali: "I will support the delay, but I don't think it's appropriate to delay indefinitely." Planning Commission is the most diverse it has ever been and it has key votes on deck. Let's fill it.

Council Member J. Prince: "The last place where we want to be having these discussions about specific appointees is in public." Let's send message to administration that you have to touch base with us before making these appointments. A one-week factfinding layover is reasonable.

BRENDMOEN: Why don't we move forward with appointing Holst for now but not Battle? THAO: I'm ok with moving forward with Holst but Battle didn't even apply for this appointment. He applied for a different one and his application was shifted over somehow.

The vote: 7-0 vote "to remove the appointment of Libby Kantner to the Planning Commission, to come back at a later time." Libby is off the Planning Commission! And she was never on it!