Here's what the Council will be voting on

This is a strange one. Normally each proposed resolution in the agendas come with their individual recommendations. Not this one: it sits there like a deflated soufflé that is almost ashamed to be on the plate.

So what comes next? Each and every member of Council will have to say something, after all the voters want to hear what each other has to say. The public has been heard from and the the first member to speak in support will obviously mention that those who spoke at the public meeting were not representative of the public and nobody cares because only a hundred people came out. After all 2500 signed the Frink petition demonstrating real participation.

But the big impact will be the effect of the PSB's presentation outlining their opposition to it. Who will have the courage to diss a 164 year old institution?

Early betting has the resolution failing 4 to 3, but anything can change, there is a member of Council that is an habitual vote switcher who swings according the last opinion held and he can be got at by the Mayor. Expect a lot of pressure from the Mayor's office on this one.