You wouldn't be asking some of these questions if you had seen the whole meeting either in person or online. twitter and facebook strike again? Let's not worry about that right now.

In any case, you haven't seen a final LoI because there isn't one. Going down the City Hall first thing when they opened What was presented at the meeting, in almost literally the last second before the vote, amounted to some notes jotted (in PENCIL, if I correctly recall, which is just a real nice touch) in the margins of the previous LoI, along with some verbal agreements that Shurz promised they would put into writing later, and some other sections crossed out of the initial LoI. This is the document upon which the council's final decision was made. GREAT WORK. Hey - it was late and strikethrough they strikethroughhad strikethroughrun strikethroughout strikethroughof strikethroughexcuses needed to get this done.

I encourage you to watch the Channel 17 video to understand for yourself. It seems long, but it is also full of extended "5-minute" breaks that literally stretch to more than 30min as the real work gets done away from public view. The majority of what takes place in front of the microphones is bureaucracy and patter, which i believe is the fun part of it for most members of the council. That, and being completely mesmerized by Knodell's horrible math as she explains to us the virtually guaranteed profitability of BT's next 10-20-50 years. I wonder what Peter Martin would have to say about that kind of sorcery.