> > Is there a connection between the five hours and the appointment?
>
> My surmise was that Larry was awarded the position based on his endurance.

There is some truth to that.

Among the items on the agenda yesterday evening were authorization to
construct a homeless shelter on the edge of downtown Ann Arbor, and a
major change in the funding formula for policing services, each of which
attracted many voices pro and con.

Barely noticed on that same agenda was a revision and update of the
county's historic district ordinance (one commissioner voted "no" without
explanation).

Some municipalities within the county, including Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti,
have their own historic district ordinances and hundreds of designated
buildings.  The county has the power to designate structures in cities and
townships which don't have such an ordinance.  At the present time, to my
knowledge, there is one (1) county-designated historic structure, an old
schoolhouse.  This schoolhouse, fire damaged, which has spent the last
half-dozen years under tarps, is now proposed to be demolished as
unsalvageable.  So much for the county's historic district program.

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com