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Committee amends tie-breaking rule, forwards ordinance to full council with recommendation
Summary
The governance committee amended an ordinance (document 2025-186) adding a rule defining how ties are determined, how absences/abstentions/vacancies are counted, and a provision that a tie fails if the mayor is unavailable; the amended ordinance was sent to full council with a recommendation to adopt (5-yes committee vote).
The Portland City Council governance committee on Monday debated and amended an ordinance to add a council rule on mayoral tie-breaking and then voted to send the amended ordinance (document 2025-186) to the full council with a recommendation that it be adopted.
The ordinance as amended includes three outcomes the committee adopted in separate votes: striking language that would have let the mayor weigh in on resolutions and reports (amendment passed in committee), a change that establishes that, "in determining if a vote is a tie, absences, abstentions, and vacancies shall be counted as no votes," and an amendment that if the mayor is unavailable, either in person or virtually, to cast a tie-breaking vote on final passage during the meeting, "the…
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