Common Council overrides mayor’s veto on Board of Zoning Appeals membership—14–0

The Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously, 14–0, to override the mayor’s veto of a substitute ordinance that would change membership of the Board of Zoning Appeals. The veto was read as a communication from the city clerk; Alderman Deandre Jackson moved to dispense with reading the veto message and to proceed to a vote on whether to pass the ordinance notwithstanding the mayor’s objection.

After brief procedural remarks and no extended floor debate, the clerk called the roll. The council’s roll-call vote was recorded as 14 ayes; the clerk announced “14 ayes. This concludes the unfinished business.” The ordinance was therefore passed over the mayor’s veto and will be returned to the council files as adopted.

The item was described on the floor as a “substitute ordinance relating to the membership of the Board of Zoning Appeals.” The mayor’s veto was identified by the clerk as coming from “his honor, the mayor”; the veto message was dispensed with at the council’s direction before the vote. The council did not add additional amendments during the override vote.

Council members present for the roll call included aldermen and alderwomen across the chamber; the clerk recorded each member’s vote on the override. The floor record shows the commonsense procedural steps required to override a mayoral veto under city rules, culminating in the 14–0 roll call in favor of passage.

The council moved on to subsequent items after the override; the clerk later read and placed on file a series of commendatory and condolatory resolutions and then advanced committee reports as part of the meeting’s business.