One of the major lessons of life may be unexpectedly emblazoned across Council Chambers this evening:

Never presume – until you are 100 percent positive, not 99 percent.

When a group known as the Culver City Action Network announced its intention to bring a proposed sanctuary-city resolution to this evening’s 7 o’clock City Council meeting, the subsequent sequence seemed obvious to many.

With Culver City already self-regarded – at least unofficially – as a sanctuary city, making it official was likely.

The presentation would be made early in the meeting, the Council would agendize it for a near meeting, and a unanimous vote at the agendized meeting would formalize the designation.

Not so fast. Perhaps not at all.

Mayor Jim Clarke said he has not seen the 1200-word Action Network story the newspaper reported on last Friday (“Group Hopes to Make ‘Sanctuary City’ Official”).

“Do not presume that it gets agendized,” Mr. Clarke told the newspaper last evening.

Nor, he said, should anyone predict a unanimous 5-0 vote just to agendize the proposal.

“A number of us believe we already are acting like a sanctuary city,” the mayor said.

“For that reason, we don’t need to call attention to it.”