It's city council season again

I''m glad we will once again have a city council after tomorrow.  I expect the new council to get a rousing round of applause when they are seated; then reality will set in  Little or no work will be attempted tomorrow, but there will still be several things to look for:

• The new mayor has hinted he will run the council meetings the way he believes meetings should be run.  Will he try to push procedural changes through in the first meeting?
• There are five rookies on the council.  What will be their plan for getting up to speed?
• Who will be mayor pro tem?  Probably Clark or Lower, but I think Mrs Blackstone may have some support.
• What will be the plan for clearing the zoning backlog? It's a remarkably small backlog for 6 months' business, but it represents a lot of issues the new members have to learn about quickly.