A very pregnant mayor Chelsea Dickey spent Tuesday night arguing with council members who continued to press her to pay a $260 bill they said she had incurred for going to a Main Street organization conference earlier this year.
The council had instructed her at its July meeting to pay the bill, but she has not done so, and at last month’s meeting, council member Bonnie Whitaker asked that the issue be included on the council’s November agenda.
Dickey, who stood during a few portions of the meeting, apparently shifting to become more comfortable after nine months of pregnancy, noted afterwards that Tuesday was her due date for delivery of her second child, but she endured the three-and-half-hour meeting without going into labor.
Meanwhile, council members who had been irritated since July with her failure to pay the bill ultimately voted, 3-2, to garnish her council pay in order to cover the bill. Dickey and councilman Jim Young voted against; Whitaker, councilman Bobby Chin, and mayor pro tem Ricky Hall voted in favor…