While the City Council pushes ahead with limiting the number of times any person can sign up for a Communications slot on the weekly agenda, I’ve seen no word yet on the other matter of the Mayor apparently violating City Code by refusing to let someone pull items off the Consent Agenda.
I suppose to some it seems a negligible point. But back during, say, the JTTF debate, the premise was that we’re meant to be a nation — and by extension a city — of laws, not of men. That principle must hold no matter the issue, no matter who the man might be, and regardless of whether or not we approve of the outcome said man’s actions effect.
If this was a violation of City Code — and a plain reading of the City Code certainly suggests it — why doesn’t anyone care?
Addendum: Such an action would be not just a violation of City Code, but in fact a violation of Section 2-127 of the City Charter itself.
Addendum: Supposedly the Mayor today allowed the same individual two pull a couple of items from the Consent Agenda. Did he just decide to be less of a hard-ass, or did someone mention to him that he’d run afoul of both the City Code and the City Charter with his earlier petulant decree?
Either way, the original matter stands: Does no one actually care that both the Code and the Charter specifically preclude preventing someone from pulling items off the Consent Agenda? And are we meant to ignore the violation simply because the Mayor didn’t do it again today?