Overview

• The updated rules bar unilateral procedural changes and state that CCRs retain their status across new council terms or a new mayor.
• Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and Councilman Edward Mungia voted against the changes, which now require full-council approval for any future process revisions.
• Council members Teri Castillo, Marina Alderete Gavito, Marc Whyte, and Misty Spears used a Four Signature Memorandum to force the vote after leadership delayed action.
• A separate item tied to the dispute—new fines for animal abandonment—passed 10-1 after the mayor tried to pull it, with Jones casting the lone no vote.
• Reporters noted 32 CCRs remain in the pipeline as Jones had urged refiling of proposals from the prior term, a stance council members rejected to protect ongoing work.