By sitting on the bill, Garey said, she is honoring the wishes of Fifth District delegation members Rikki Spector, Helen Holton and Stephanie Rawlings, who have been working with conflicting parties in Mt. Washington to reach a resolution. The council adjourns Friday, and the bill will remain in committee over the summer recess. The bill is not dead. Garey said, and work on a compromise could resume in the fall.
Some people think there is still hope.
Those negotiations continued in a separate conference room at City Hall Monday night as the council met in its chambers, but failed to reach any conclusion. Peter Garver, president of the Mt. Washington Improvement Association, said the community doesn't know yet what will be the repercussions of the committee's inaction on the bill. We really just don't know what it means. The improvement association agreed to that idea, but then the company kept enlarging what it wanted to do to Provincial House, Garver said. They just kept pushing it farther and farther, Garver said.