Common Councilmembers want collaboration and transparency in new administration [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Aside from the somewhat historic changing of the guard in the Mayor’s office on the 2nd floor of city hall, it was business as usual in council chambers on the 13th floor. 

The now 8-member common council began its 2 p.m. regular meeting and had it wrapped up by 3. 

There was a bit of back and forth about a non-owner-occupied short-term rental moratorium that eventually was punted back to the legislative committee.

There was also a curious debate between majority leader Leah Halton-Pope and University District Councilmember Rasheed N.C. Wyatt about the charter revision committee that was passed by the council. 

If you only watched, or attended, the meeting, you would have never known that it was the first day in nearly 19 years that the council was working in a city with a new administration. 

After the meeting, however, …