Bleeding Heartland
Tuesday, Jun 29 2021
Gross abuse of power.
Those are words you won’t read in any newspaper, local tv, or online news article about the Des Moines City Council meeting on June 28 – or any council meeting, for that matter. However, that is exactly what has been happening for more than a year.
The consent agenda, by definition, is for day to day city business. In other words, non-controversial agenda items – liquor licenses and things of that nature. If there were something disagreeable on the consent agenda, normally the public could address the council at the meeting to have the item pulled.