I would actually stay awake in more meetings if they were this amusing. City counsel is serious business.

A difference of opinion over whether it was 11:25 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. allegedly led to an altercation between an Alamosa County commissioner and a resident who called him a liar at a county meeting.

The men apparently disagreed about the starting time of the public-comment period at a meeting Wednesday. The public is allowed to comment beginning at 11:25 a.m. Allen called a recess, returned at 11:30 a.m. and announced that “we are now starting to have public comment at 11:25 a.m.,” Moyer said.

Moyer said Allen “got up from the chair and he came almost running” toward Moyer, who was sitting 30 to 50 feet away.

Moyer said Allen hit him in the head and “the next thing I knew, I was on the floor.”

He said he didn’t know if Allen pushed him off the chair or he fell.

“And then he kicked me on the right side. That’s what really hurts me physically,” Moyer said.

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