Monday Nights in Mt. Lebanon

Apparently I'm not the only one in Mt. Lebanon who enjoys a good meeting. About 100 other folks do, too. Last night was standing room only at the Mt. Lebanon Commission Meeting. Rumor has it that due to the three public hearings, it ran until 2:00 AM. I was only able to get through about half of the Kossman Development hearing. The gist of the public beef is surrounding the traffic implications of the development. Because commission meetings aren't televised, I don't know how it turned out, so more on this later. I had hoped to make it through the Adult Business hearing as well as the zoning ordinance hearing, but I could tell that the Kossman hearing wasn't going to end before midnight.

Meanwhile, the MTL School Board met to approve a 5.1% annual increase on teacher salaries, discuss rejecting all bids on the completion of the punch list for Foster and the strategic plan implementation. There was a lengthy discussion re: the revision to the policy about selection of instructional materials - actually the only part of the meeting I've seen in whole on the cable access channel.

What I've seen of the strategic plan implementation presentation looks promising, though. More on this later...

MTL School Board Director Rodella managed to make both meetings. He asked the commission to reconsider the zoning ordinance that would prevent the District from building the natatorium higher than 14 feet in order to save the District additional expense incurred by Natatorium Plan C. More on this later, too...