Yeah, I've thought it over a little more now, and agree that I was too hard on the Downtown Commission. They were just doing the best they could. When I wrote the report, I was pretty bummed about the whole deal, but when I did the little hand puppet thing to myself, it told me that I didn't do as much as I could have to make it work either.

I should have lobbied each and every council member that could make a motion, into making a motion for the delay. At least that way there would have been a fallback position if the DC recommendations weren't going to fly.

I also should have made sure that Joe's idea for polling performers and businesses was known by Coleen ahead of time so that when Emily gave her the leading question about it, Coleen would have been ready and prepared to spend a couple minutes reporting about the strength of volunteerism in the buskers group. I shouldn't have been so soft on 'No-Guild' Noddy and shouldn't have let him get away with his constant denials about street performer problems, after-all I knew beyond any doubt through first-hand conversations with shop workers, that there were indeed plenty of street performer related problems. We didn't need any data collection that we couldn't do ourselves. We knew there were problems and we knew how to solve them. All it took was a little bit of commitment to discussing the problems with the involved parties.

Anyways, there are plenty of mistakes to go around.