HEARING ROOM NOTICE
MATTER: Public Audit Intake PA-77-4041
FIRST QUESTION: Credibility
PUBLIC ACCESS: Limited overflow feed
The witness table had a red button.
Not the app's button.
A physical one.
Small, round, set into the right side of the table under a clear plastic guard. A label beside it read:
PAUSE TESTIMONY
Nora sat in front of it and wanted to laugh.
Of course.
Even here, the city gave her a button and made the next second her job.
The hearing room was built for calm. Pale wood. Soft lights. Three audit officers behind a raised desk. Civic Trust on the left. Public petitioner on the right. A glass wall at the back with a limited gallery behind it. Beyond that, screens for overflow.
People stood outside in the public queue with receipts over their heads.
Inside, the
