The Monday night meeting of the Great Bend City Council was almost the meeting that didn’t happen.Council meetings are set to start at 7:30 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of each month at the City Office, 1209 Williams. The council consists of eight members – Randy Myers, Ken Roberts, Dana Dawson, Joel Jackson, Nels Lindberg, Dale Westoff, Allene Owen and Mitch Haney.For the council to act, a quorum must be present. As a basic civics lesson, a quorum is the minimum number of members of a governing body necessary to conduct the business of that group, in the council’s case, that would be five.