Then she quickly added: "With my grandkids dancing on board."

"No, don't do it. I'm telling you don't do it," Commissioner Lawrence Weekly urged.

"I don't think that would help your re-election," Commissioner Rory Reid said.

SCOTT WYLAND

OVERHEARD ON THE SCANNER: "It's a fully involved turkey fire; we can handle."

LAS VEGAS IS TAKING A KEY VOTE Wednesday in a push to build a new City Hall, so Week In Review decided to take a look at the reviews the existing building has received over the years.

Architecturally, it's been mostly a good news/bad news situation, and many commentators have noted some unintended symbolism: The monolithic blank wall of the tower faces south and east, toward downtown, as though City Hall was turning its back to the oft-maligned area. The windowed side, meanwhile, faces the sprawling suburban development to the northwest.

One guide to local architecture said City Hall "is a wonderful period piece of 1960s modernist design." But the courtyard that's the center of the plaza "is a barren space, with neither landscaping nor articulation to relieve its concrete harshness." (Update: There are plants and trees there now, mostly in pots.)

An expansion in 2002 added second-floor offices, a parking garage and a pedestrian bridge. The curved office addition overhanging Stewart Avenue did not impress one architecture critic, who said the building had become "a group of forms reminiscent of a shopping mall whose sections have been built over different decades." It was a poor choice for "a city trying to give its downtown core the feel of a dynamic urban center."

Ouch. Better luck next time, if there is one.

ALAN CHOATE