San Jose mayor "forgets" to sign a paper, thereby delaying a key procedural vote
The issue is a housing impact fee, to be levied on new market-rate rental construction to fund affordable housing. Right now, we have the votes to pass it -- but councilmember Kansen Chu is almost certainly going to be elected to the Assembly, so he'll be gone at the end of next month. Presently, the vote is scheduled for November 18 -- which means the second reading would take place on December 2, with no Chu.
So Chu filed what he, and the rest of us, though would be a routine procedural motion to have the vote moved up to October 18. So routine, in fact, that it had been placed on the consent calendar. But a shocked audience (at least our section of it) was informed that the procedural vote had been deferred to next week's council meeting.
Come to find out, our esteemed mayor 
Chuck Reed showed his nasty DINO side. He conveniently "forgot" to sign the official copy of the agenda item in question, meaning that no action could be taken on it at this meeting.
