Come Back in Three Weeks is a blog focussing primarily on the goings-on of the meetings of the Clarence City Council. Particularly interesting or important items will get fleshed-out sections, but every meeting post will contain a full rundown of any votes that take place in open session at the bottom.

The blog is built on Pelican, an open-source static site generator written in Python. The posts themselves are written in Markdown, making heavy use of custom extensions to build out some of the fancier elements. (Those vote tables at the bottom of every meeting post took almost eight hours to figure out, but now they’re very easy to build. Will I save eight hours of time over the course of writing this blog? Who knows!)

The comment sections currently run on Remarkbox. We’ll see how long that lasts.

About Clarence City Council

Clarence was founded in 1860. Situated on the eastern shore of nipaluna / Hobart, lutruwita / Tasmania, its boundaries stretch outward from Rosny Park, north to Richmond, south and east to Cambridge and the South Arm peninsula. The city’s bounds also contain the Hobart International Airport. At the 2021 Census, Clarence was recorded as having 61,531 residents.

Clarence achieved city status in 1988, and absorbed the town of Richmond in 1993 as part of a series of mergers that reduced Tasmania’s local government areas (LGAs) from 46 to 29. Since 2014, councillors in Tasmania’s LGAs have been elected all at the same time, once every four years in October. Clarence currently elects 12 councillors¹ including one mayor and one deputy mayor.²

About the Author

Thomas Chick (he/they, and known online in various places as Tantusar) is completely unqualified, but thinks you should hear his opinion anyway.