Quote Originally Posted by drjeff View Post
I've always wondered, what the hell does the city council DO most of the time, since it's a full time job? I could ask the same of the state legislature.
I felt the same way but I've been making more of an effort to listen to City Council meetings online while I'm at work. There are a lot of things they go through, from zoning to approving lawsuit settlements to city initiatives. They have to figure out how to vote on each of these, which is what I presume they do. Here is today's agenda, for example.

As far as personal cars, I thought that was too much for any executive, but my husband, who works in the public sector, explained how much some public execs have to travel daily [[from local place to local place) and how much business they get done while commuting [[phone calls, reading, etc) a few hours a day. That makes sense to me to have drivers for that purpose, provided they really are that busy [[not necessarily City Council, but public officials in general).