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A bid to reward local contractors and businesses who employ local businesses or use local resources failed Tuesday night to get the City Council votes necessary to become law and instead was delayed two more weeks.
City Councilwoman Pamela Ladd tried offering a compromise that would have slipped the proposed practice into the city’s purchasing manual instead of making it a law.
“I think this is maybe a good medium,” she said.
But the proposal led to a half-hour debate and the unraveling of the support the measure held last week when the council voted 5-4 to adopt it on first reading. Instead, council members voted 9-0 to delay the measure for two more weeks while the city attorney looks at whether the entire bidding code needs to be re-examined.