Audience members shouted and jeered at the Council, resulting in Council President Sara Nelson calling for several 10-minute recesses and eventually kicking everyone out of chambers. Councilmembers returned to their offices to finish the meeting on Zoom.
Temperatures were already hot by the time the Council began its discussion of the SCORE contract. Seven councilmembers had voted to remove Initiative 137, the social housing tax, from the day’s agenda, meaning it would not meet the Aug. 6 deadline to appear on the November ballot. The measure will instead appear on ballots in February, likely alongside a competing housing proposal from the Council, a move that brought shouts of “shame” from
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