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Syracuse Common Council overrides mayoral vetoes on dozens of ordinances
Summary
At a regularly scheduled meeting, the Syracuse Common Council voted to override the mayor’s vetoes on a large slate of ordinances, passing each motion by voice vote after motions to override were made and rolls were called.
The Syracuse Common Council voted to override the mayor’s vetoes on a large number of ordinances during its meeting, passing each override motion after a motion and a roll call vote.
The council made individual motions to override mayoral vetoes for the following ordinance numbers (as spoken in the meeting): 253, 266, 268, 271, 274, 276, 277, 278, 279, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 288, 291, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 317, 318, 319 and 328.
Council proceedings show repeated motions phrased as “I’d like to make a motion to override the mayor veto of ordinance number [X],” followed by a second and a roll call. The clerk repeatedly reported the voice vote as “Aye” and the chair declared the result unanimous or approved. The meeting transcript does not record individual roll-call tallies or named yea/nay votes for each ordinance in a way that identifies how individual councilors voted; the roll call was conducted by the clerk after each motion and the council responded vocally.
Councilor Williams is recorded repeatedly making the motions to override the mayoral vetoes during the supplemental/waiver portion of the meeting; seconders are recorded as “Second” on the audio but are not consistently identified by name in the transcript excerpt.
The overrides occurred during the meeting’s supplemental agenda after councilors voted to waive the rules and move to the waiver’s agenda. The transcript records the overrides as successive, separate motions with the clerk calling the roll after each motion.
Because the transcript excerpt records the actions as individual override motions rather than a single omnibus vote, each ordinance override is recorded here as a separate council action. The meeting record in the transcript does not include ordinance titles, subject matter, fiscal impacts, or detailed vote tallies for each item; those details are not specified in the provided transcript.
The council also approved other routine agenda items and appointments during the same meeting.
