When is this meeting going to end? An idle thought which at some point has passed through the mind of anyone ever stuck in a meeting that has gone on way too long. That is now a literal reality for Pierce County’s Industrial Development and Building Authority (IDBA).
The IDBA’s March 9 meeting began with a quorum, but did not end with one. Having been rescheduled twice already, once due to illness on the part of Executive Director Blake James and once to accommodate the schedule of those giving a special presentation to a closed session of the IDBA board and members of the county government, perhaps the March meeting had already begun under a cloud.
Due to another previously scheduled meeting, IDBA Board Vice President Rodney James had to leave prior to the end of this one. With that in mind, the agenda was quickly reshuffled. Following the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance, the February minutes and financials were hurriedly voted into the official record so the board could then move into what became a very extended closed session.
