The City Council is convening at historic City Hall for the last time today, marking the end of an era of long — and often fierce — public debate at Stockton’s century-old headquarters on El Dorado Street.
Starting with the City Council’s July 7 meeting, the council, its committees and Stockton’s citizen boards and commissions will meet in new chambers at New City Hall on West Weber Avenue.
A last-minute special Audit Committee meeting — at 11 a.m. Wednesday — is scheduled at the city’s historic headquarters. But after tonight, full City Council meetings in the old pink-and-green chambers will be no more.
It’s a momentous shift for a city whose government has since the 1920s been based in the columned, Greco-Roman-style concrete and terracotta hall on the northern edge of downtown…