In the latest power struggle at City Hall, a group of City Council members are renewing their attempts to curb Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ prerogative to appoint a trio of community leaders to oversee the city’s 2027 bond program.
Council members Teri Castillo, Marina Alderete Gavito and Marc Whyte filed a three-signature memo last week to force a special meeting about the mayor’s selections for the tri-chairs, as such appointees were called in past bond efforts.
It’s not a city policy but mayors have historically chosen three chairs to guide the process of vetting bond projects for voter approval, such as street repairs, drainage work, affordable housing and parks…