Councillor wants limits on lengthy meetings

NPA Coun. Peter Ladner wants to put a cap on Vancouver's epic council meetings to stop them from dragging on into "ridiculous hours in the morning."

It's been less than two weeks since council's marathon 19-hour budget session earlier this month finished up at the unseemly hour of 4:30 a.m. - or so I hear, having left nine hours prior to meet deadline - and it seems councillors are still trying to catch up on their sleep.

Ladner says the protracted meetings are "bad management, at the minimum," making his proposal to put a time limit on council yesterday during the shortest meeting in recent memory.

Since a bout of opposition filibustering back in December convinced the NPA to change its mind on an early key issue, meetings have stretched on into the evening, often drawn out by political bickering.

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