City council runs a muni marathon

The Eye was sitting in the cheap seats at the Boulder City Council’s meeting on municipalization Aug. 6.

The meeting began at 6 p.m. with a standing-room-only crowd on hand to voice its concerns to the council, mostly in favor of the city creating a municipal electric utility.

The meeting ended about 1:20 a.m., with only six people in the crowd. That crew included at least four people being paid to be there, a pair of city communications staffers and dutiful scribes from the Boulder County Business Report and Daily Camera.

The late finish left council members discussing out loud whether it was…