It shouldn't be intimidating because the (City Council) puts their pants on just like everybody else.

When they're a little disorderly, when they repeat what others have said, I don't think that helps their cause. The governing body tends to turn them off when that happens.

I was nervous and a little bit intimidated. It was a new setting with new rules.

We decided to donate about $2,344 from our stipend account, and the City Council voted recently to match the other half of the funds.

After about two weeks, you realize everybody's human, and everybody puts their pants on the same way.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.