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Mount Vernon board approves budget transfer for Charter Review legal services; mayor raises process concerns
Summary
The board authorized a transfer from contingency to pay outside counsel for the Charter Revision Commission but the mayor and others raised concerns that the commission lacks an agreed internal process for contracting and spending.
The Board of Estimate and Contract on May 20 approved a budget transfer from the contingency fund to the City Council's outside contracted services line to cover legal services for the Charter Revision Commission.
Comptroller Morton presented the request as coming from the Charter Revision Commission chair; the transfer will support drafting ballot language and related…
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