City Commissioners of McAllen, Texas Spread Themsevles Thin

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We all have a busy life where unfortunately we all don’t get to focus our entire dedication to one thing. We are forced to focus on everything that is going on in our lives all at the same time. Focusing our effort and energy on different things at the same time involves us not putting our full dedication to each and every subject. When we go to work, work out, and spend some time with our families can we truly give our entire focus to each and everything thing of these? I believe it is impossible because while doing one thing our mind gets interrupted by the other things we have to put our focus in. Therefore, we do not all get to truly put our entire focus on each thing we have to take care of in our lives. I feel this is a great example on how all commissioners function. There are so many issues in all our cities that the city commissioners do not get to cover all of them and put their entire focus on all of them.
For my assignment I viewed the video of the city commission meeting that took place in McAllen TX on 11/25/13. They began the meeting by doing the pledge of allegiance which is very common on an important event. They also had a speech thanking the lord for all the great things that we all have and also congratulated one of the commissioners for her birthday. Throughout this entire meeting I felt that there was a lot of sense of humor which I find good but at the same time it takes a lot of time out of the time that could be used on important city issues. I also never knew that they will introduce the Miss. McAllen title holders in a city commission meeting. I do not have anything against the pageants but I believe it is more important to take hands into action and get to the point at the meetings. Instead of spending...

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...hood. She explained that there are all kinds of people living in that neighborhood that been living there for a very long time. She also mentioned that if that night club opens up it will disturb the entire community and that she has 61 people who signed a petition but are unable to attend the meeting. When her speech was translated they did not explain every single concern to the council. One of the council members just briefly explained to the rest of the council members that there are 61 persons that signed her petition and that there are young children and elderly people in that neighborhood. I would have liked for them to explain every single detail to the rest of the council so they can be aware of entirely her concerns. This is where I believe that the council was not responsive entirely to the concerns of the citizens specially by rushing every single issue.

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