Inside Toledo City Council is an ongoing TFP series highlighting notable resolutions, appointments, ordinances and resolutions made by up to a 12-member council. The meetings are held Tuesdays in council chambers, and the synopsis is published Fridays.
TOLEDO – One of the most heated exchanges during this council meeting was when an unsolicited petition against zoning changes was presented by Toledo mayoral candidate Roberto Torres near the end of Tuesday afternoon’s Toledo City Council agenda review.
Only when ordinances are still in committee can the public express their opinions on them, and ordinances are not open to public comment during review or meetings by council. So, Torres’s interruption was met with an immediate rebuff from council member Adam Martinez (District 2), who was presiding over the agenda review.
Generally, the agenda review looks at mundane parts of government and asks questions of department heads so they have more information before voting. Various council members trickled into this session during what could be considered a tediously casual beginning to the agenda review, so the review did not begin with a full quorum in attendance…