In a typical thumbing of his nose at the City Council, who voted on Thursday to request two separate budget proposals from Mayor Bill Foster, he said he would only send them one because two is unnecessary in his opinion, and since we have a strong-mayor form of government he can pretty much get away with that too, even though the vote was 6-2, a veto-proof vote.
It's clear that Mayor Foster is only doing this because he wants the city council to be seen as the ones pushing for property tax rates to be raised, since he has been very sensitive to accusations of raising property taxes in the past. Then again he hasn't had a problem pushing for dozens of new and raised fees in almost all aspects of city services, so it's very hypocritical of the Mayor to be behaving this way when talking about property taxes. His posturing is all politics and has nothing to do with what is best for the city.
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