Earlier this evening, the City Council voted 7-2 to override Mayor Durkan’s veto of its “rebalanced” 2020 budget.
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Council will vote on budget veto override Tuesday afternoon
The City Council has scheduled a special meeting for 3:00pm Tuesday afternoon to vote on whether to override Mayor Durkan’s veto of its rebalanced 2020 budget package — or if that fails, a compromise bill that would preserve some of the Council’s top priorities.
Continue readingMayor vetoes Council’s 2020 budget changes, but cuts a deal on COVID relief
Today Mayor Durkan vetoed the heart of the City Council’s changes to the 2020 budget rebalancing package, while also announcing that she had reached a compromise deal with several Council members on a revised COVID-19 relief package that would deliver $45 million this year and next without fully draining the city’s reserve funds.
Continue readingCouncil overrides veto of COVID-19 relief bill, then immediately adjusts it to new fiscal reality (updated)
This afternoon in a special meeting, the City Council overrode Mayor Durkan’s veto of a bill that authorizes the spending of $86 million from the city’s two reserve fund to pay for COVID-19 relief programs. Then it immediately passed a new bill that reduced the amount to $57 million, reflecting the most recent news about the city’s increasing revenue shortfall this year.
Continue readingDurkan vetoed the soda tax bill; here’s what happens next
Last Friday Mayor Jenny Durkan vetoed the ordinance setting new restrictions on how Sweetened Beverage Tax revenues can be spent. Vetoes are incredibly rare in Seattle City Hall, so that sent everyone (including me) scrambling to the City Charter to see what happens next. Yes, we all know in theory how it works, but the details matter.
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