DOVER At a sometimes contentious special session Friday evening that lasted nearly three hours, Dover council voted to override Mayor Richard Homrighausen s vetoes of two pieces of legislation.
The first piece established rates for customers of Dover Power & Light and included a surcharge on electricity used by Dover Chemical Corp. Council voted 6-1 to override that veto.
Law Director Doug O Meara has alleged that employees of the city s Electric Field Division had been maintaining and upgrading the lines and equipment inside Dover Chemical, in violation of an ordinance passed by council in 1975.
The surcharge would allow the city to recoup about $2.2 million in free uncompensated services that O Meara said the company received.