I wasn’t able to attend the City Council meeting tonight, but I heard it on WCBU. The big news is, of course, that they voted 8-3 (Sandberg, Weaver, and Akeson voting “no”) to rescind (rather than ratify) the City Manager’s letter of cancellation of the hotel redevelopment agreement. So, the project lives on as the Council just can’t pass up a chance to throw $37 million of your tax money down a hole. If you were putting together a soundtrack for the executive session, I don’t think you could do any better than including the Genesis song “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”:

Here are some of the lyrics that are particularly poignant:

I got some money in my pocket, about ready to burn
I don’t remember where I got it, I gotta get it to you
So please answer the phone ‘cos I keep calling
But you’re never home, what am I gonna do?

Tonight, tonight, tonight, oh, I’m gonna make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight, oh

You keep telling me I’ve got everything
You say I’ve got everything I want
You keep telling me you’re gonna help me
You’re gonna help me but you don’t

But now I’m in too deep, you see it’s got me
So that I just can’t sleep, oh get me out of here
Please get me out of here, just help me, I’ll do anything
Anything if you’ll just help get me out of here