The Importance Of A Town Council Meeting

Each council member gave their opinions and views about the project very briefly before it was opened to the public. Each council member agreed that the project must be moved forward and put into action because this will be good for the entire community. One council member mentioned how he like to see every different sport present in the room at the time and I thought that was very interesting for him to give credit to the kids for showing their support about the issue. The head councilman believes this new turf field will help advertise for the town and bring in more people because they can see the town taking new actions towards improvement. Personally, I think what he said was right, but does not really mean it will actually happen. …show more content…
Although this specific town council meeting only pertained to one major issue, it showed me the process it takes to allow for a major project like this to take place in a certain area. Before attending this meeting, I had very little knowledge at all about any a town council meeting, how they were ran, or what was even discussed throughout the meetings. It was an eye-opening experience that gave me encouragement to want to start going to my own town council meetings and the town meetings for my high school as well. A town council meeting in a small town like Monroe, Connecticut can be very different than a bigger city like Providence or New Haven, but it still showed me insight on how the Legislative branch of our federal government …show more content…
Based on both of my observations, the judicial and legislative branches both focused on multiple issues because in district court there are more than one case brought forward to the judge. In order for someone to understand a certain council members personality, you need to patiently wait until it was that persons turn to speak up in front of everyone in regards to the issues they chose to speak on. In the courtroom, it was a lot easier to make judgements about a person because the action moved much faster and over the course of a short period, few people may spoken, rather than the town meeting where it was often a single person speaking for several minutes at a time. Members of the town council and the community presented their proposals in a very formal and direct way; they were mostly all trying to give positive feedback towards the Track and Field