Sacramento mayor at odds with city attorney's directive

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Teichert said the mayor did have a financial stake in the specific issue before the City Council on Tuesday: whether the council should draft an ordinance to fix what she described as a "potentially fatal flaw" in the strong-mayor ballot measure.

Right now, the mayor holds what is essentially the city of Sacramento's District 9 council seat. Passage of the strong-mayor initiative would make the mayor's position separate from the council and create a new council seat to fill that void. The initiative does not set a timeline for the election of that new seat – an omission Teichert says could result in the entire ballot measure being ruled unconstitutional.

Teichert told the council Tuesday it could remedy the problem by voting to place a companion measure on the June ballot specifying a timeline for the District 9 election.