Commentary by Mario Bravo: We elect council members to help solve our problems, but not allowing them to place items on the weekly meeting agenda can prevent discussions and delay action.
supported an amendment to their city’s charter to create a process for city council members to submit agenda items for consideration at regularly held council meetings. Until then, the mayor of Houston had full control over council meeting agendas, but the amendment empowered Houston council members to have a say in what the full council could debate and vote on.
In San Antonio, we elect council members to help solve our problems, but in some ways, we don’t enable them to do so. Not being able to place items on the weekly meeting agenda can prevent discussions and delay action to solve problems. It turned out that a solution to our painful construction delays had already been proposed. In March of 2021, before I was elected to office, District 6 Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda had drafted and submittedfor an ordinance allowing the City of San Antonio to exclude contractors with a history of poor performance from being awarded projects, even if a contractor submitted the lowest cost bid.
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