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   simply a neutral accounting process, but instead a political one. (Biery,   
   the city’s chief financial officer, has taken recent issue with that   
   sentiment. In a recent council committee meeting, he said: “I’ve heard   
   language suggesting that there’s an attempt to game the numbers or produce   
   a shadow budget. I want to state as directly as possible, that that is   
   absolutely not the case.”). That allegation largely reflects a growing   
   ideological split between the council’s six-member progressive caucus,   
   called Peacock, and the mayor’s office.   
      
   Morillo’s amendment eventually died. Three councilors voted in opposition:   
   Pirtle-Guiney, Smith and Novick. Five voted for it, including Morillo,   
   Mitch Green, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Jamie Dunphy and Sameer Kanal.   
   Councilors Avalos, Clark, Zimmerman and Dan Ryan were absent at the time   
   of the vote.   
      
   Prior to the final vote, Wilson and Morillo went at it once more in final   
   remarks. Morillo alleged Wilson conjured up false consequences of her   
   amendment in an attempt to kill it.   
      
   “And now, regardless of how anybody feels about this amendment, the fact   
   that the mayor and city bureaucrats would engage in this sort of behavior   
   should be of deep concern to ever single one of my colleagues,” Morillo   
   said. “It would seem that the mayor is more interested in his own agenda   
   than working within the boundaries of our new government.”   
      
   Wilson asked to respond to Morillo’s remarks.   
      
   “We’ve heard from people from across the city and they feel blindsided.   
   They feel cut out of this process, confused by the shifting narrative and   
   the unclear answers from the council. It relies on bad information that   
   does not acknowledge the immediate and severe hardship this would bring to   
   neighborhoods,” Wilson said.   
      
   And in a rare public swipe at the council, which has passed few policies   
   in its first year, Wilson said: “We need a professional, disciplined   
   executive. Also we need a professional, disciplined council. I ask that   
   you vote no.”   
      
   The council voted to send the overall technical adjustment ordinance to a   
   second reading next week, without Morillo’s proposed changes.   
      
   https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2025/11/13/council-rejects-morillos-mid-   
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