"If people weren't going to vote for the last [proposal], I don't know how they would vote for the other one," he said. "I don't want to waste citizen time."
Dut to lengthy public comment and council discussion, the meeting lasted several hours longer than usual.
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Vice Mayor Maher had to chair the meeting for a brief period while Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio attended an awards ceremony for a high school mentoring program. He returned during the council's recess before 9 p.m., but the meeting lasted past midnight.