Town Board Votes Unanimously To Form Committee On Why Committees Take So Long

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — A town board voted unanimously Monday to form a committee on why committees take so long, and then tabled the vote's own minutes until the new committee can review them. The resolution is four pages. Three of them are the list of people who will be invited to say they are honored to serve.

We are not delaying. We are sequencing the delay so it has a chair, a vice chair, and a date that is forthcoming in a permanent way.

The committee's first task is to decide whether it is a committee, a task force, or a working group, a question a previous working group left unresolved in a year everyone agreed not to name out loud. Members will meet on a date to be determined by a scheduling committee, which the resolution creates in a footnote. Public comment will be taken after the comment period, in writing, on a form that is online somewhere.

I brought a printed question. They thanked me for my format and referred the question to the body that studies questions. I think I am the public now. I have a folding chair.

The board thanked itself for the pace of the evening. The whole matter took eleven minutes, which the clerk called a record and the spokesman called a first reading. A second reading is planned for after the committee has met about the possibility of a second reading. Refreshments will be referred to a later agenda, where they will be described as ongoing.

At press time, the committee had scheduled a meeting to consider whether it had been formed, and the meeting had a subcommittee for the clock.