He will return to the site where he first unveiled his plan to cut sewage overflows and began a 10-month outreach effort to gather public input.
Parking is available on the street.
After seven years of expert research on the issue and nearly a year of exhaustive public outreach, the Mayor sent a plan to fund an 85 percent reduction of the sewage overflows to the Council in January. However, the Council waited nearly four months to hold a hearing and consider it for a vote. When the ordinance was finally heard by the full Council on April 30, it was postponed again. The Council majority indicated that it would not pass the Mayor's raw sewage plan without passing a separate ordinance, pushed by Councillor Beulah Coughenour, to create both a new user fee and a new government office to manage stormwater drainage.