Council votes to move forward with convention centre negotiations

But it's by no means a done deal

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I captured last night's council meeting on video. Here's the relevant 25 minutes, worth a watch:

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I watched council deal with the issue for about 12 hours yesterday, until they kicked me out to go into secret deliberations. As council does after secret deliberations, they came back into public session and voted on a cryptic motion they agreed to in closed session. The city's press release:

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