…..ZAK MOTIONS IT
Wildomar Magazine was on hand for the “historic” or “historical,” one can never be certain which is correct, for the Mayor Scott Farnam’s first city council meeting. The meeting moved smartly, for the most part, and we were completely done in an hour and ten minutes.
Zak did not have to grit his teeth during the Invocation as the courageous new mayor was a man of his word and there was no Invocation. I silently breathed a prayer of thanks and, fortunately, no one noticed.
With the gavel deftly removed from former Mayor Bob Cashman’s hands and the publicly-pronounced absence of his former puppetmaster, the absence of any whining Band of Sisters, the meeting room had a softer, happier tenor to it’s atmosphere. Not a peep about the cemetary district, WCC or the RDA PAC offering to build Wildomar a Community Center.
Now to the polish. “I motion” is not a valid phrase to be used in a public meeting. It’s amateurish. And it makes no sense. “Motion” is not a verb and cannot be used as one. The correct phraseology is “I move” or “I make a motion” to initiate a potential vote by the Council.
By far, however, the second best source of Zak’s internal giggle machine was the “Coolest Mayor in the Valley’s” calling a 5-0 vote as “five-zip.” I don’t believe that phrase has ever been uttered in a public meeting before last evening.
The best call by Farnam, a realtor by trade, was to call for a vote, stating that he had a “first and a second.” Good mayor, Zak and his fellow citizens don’t care how the financing on your home was set up.
Despite the hiccups, Farnam will get his cowboy boots under himself and the next year should have the professional appearance we all desire.
In fact, I motion it.
Comments can be made to Zak at zakturango@excite.com.
