1.   A number of local law societies had offered to help, she added, as had several Council members.

2.   All council members donate their time, and the district being evaluated pays for travel, lodging, and food.

3.   Being a Council member entails neither heavy lifting nor punching a time clock.

4.   But Council members began meeting in private the day before the full session.

5.   Campbell believed he could strengthen his hand by making an example of a council member in order to demonstrate where power lay.

6.   Council members actively began to seek information about the mechanics of housing rehabilitation programs in other cities.

7.   Council members also voted in principle to pay themselves or their firms for the time they spent working on Council affairs.

8.   Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach.

9.   Council members took jabs and butted heads and bit off ears, figuratively speaking.

10.   Every council member voted against the proposal.