council meeting

A couple stories in the Quad Cities Times caught my eye. The first one involves the inspections of rental property. You can read the story

here.

Spending this kind of money up front doesn't seem very cost efficient when they were trying to make up $200,000.
The other story

here

involves moving the legal department from Malin to the council. This always seemed to make sense to me. When the legal department writes Malin contracts with the city, I think the council should be the one in charge.