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Mayor vetoes council's verbal moratorium; council proceeds with first reading of revised rental ordinance
Summary
Mayor Linda McDonald vetoed a verbal council action that sought to extend a moratorium on the city's pending rental ordinance indefinitely. Council members then conducted a first reading of an amended ordinance regulating non-owner occupied dwellings; the measure will return for a second reading.
Mayor Linda McDonald issued a veto of a council action that she said had not followed the city's agenda and rule requirements, and the City Council did not overturn that veto at its Aug. 18 meeting.
The veto letter, read into the public record by the clerk, said the council's verbal action to extend a moratorium on enforcement of the rental ordinance did not appear on the meeting agenda and that the mayor was exercising her authority under the city charter. "I am vetoing this council action for the following reasons," the mayor said in the letter as read aloud.
Why it matters: the council had earlier tried to pause enforcement of a new ordinance regulating non-owner-occupied dwellings while the ordinance was revised. The mayor's veto prevents an immediate indefinite pause in enforcement; the council can attempt to overturn that veto at a future meeting with the affirmative votes required…
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