More silly conduct on the part of the Mayor of Guadalupe!

People in Guadalupe were supposed to meet last night to talk about policing their town.

That did not happen because the mayor pulled the plug on the meeting. The countdown continues to tick away. Last month Sheriff Joe Arpiao said he was ending the $1.2 million contract with the town. He had given the city 180 days to find someone new to patrol the streets.

Last nights meeting was supposed to be the mayor's chance to calm the fears of residents and assure them that this will not be a police-less town in a few months, but instead she ended the meeting almost as soon as it began.

Mayor Rebecca Jimenez called for a vote to cancel the meeting because council member Patrisha Jimenez has an ailing father. The prematurely adjourned meeting caused a bit of an uproar from some of the residents and council members as they made their way through the lobby.

The Guadalupe Public Safety Committee is actually the group who called for this special meeting. They are a group of concerned residents who wanted to share their ideas with the council and mayor. They were obviously not pleased.

Council Member Frank Montiel tells 3TV the meeting could have continued with one member absent and he is not happy with the progress the mayor has made so far.

3TV was also told that the mayor has drafted a few letters to send to cities like Tempe and Phoenix asking for help patrolling but those letters have reportedly not been sent out. The mayor's supporters say give her time.

3TV tried to talk to the mayor but she said she would be right back and just needed to run to her desk but went out the back door instead.

This all started because of the mayor's comments about the sheriff's immigration busts in Guadalupe. Even the sheriff has said if the town gets its own police force, he can still come in and set up shop anyway.