Council Debates Special Election Home Rule Petition, Moves to Hearing
City Councilor Lydia Edwards is now in the process of scheduling a hearing to review and discuss a Home Rule Petition that would be sent to the State Legislature requesting that a potential mayoral Special Election in June be waived.
On Wednesday, Jan. 13, the Council debated hotly the Home Rule presented by Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, but moved it to a hearing in Edwards’s Committee.
This Wednesday, she said she hadn’t scheduled that hearing and there was plenty of time.
Mayor Martin Walsh is still serving as mayor though he has accepted the nomination from President Joe Biden to be the U.S. Labor Secretary. He would need to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate before he can start the job, and his hearings have yet to begin. However, five nominees for Cabinet positions have already started their hearings this week, and it is expected Mayor Walsh would begin his confirmation hearings next week some time. He is exp