This post has been corrected to indicate that council clerk Laurel Humphrey, not Carol Shenk, read the title into the record.

At Monday's City Council meeting, city legislative information manager Laurel Humphrey read into the record what may be the longest ordinance title in city history. (The legislation in question, combining the departments of finance and budget, itself included some 400 pages of housekeeping and technical amendments). At the end of Humphrey's three-and-a-half-minute recitation, city council members burst into laughter, and the crowd in council chambers burst into applause. Watch it:

[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8UJWSwjNpw[/youtube]