A Macon City Council committee parked regulations for food trucks Monday afternoon, likely ensuring that no standards specifically addressing that type of business will be voted on before city and county governments merge at the end of the year.
Councilman Henry Ficklin, who made the motion to table the matter, said the city shouldn’t be passing new laws in its last three months, while a transition task force is working on unifying existing Macon and Bibb County ordinances.
“I think the (consolidation) transition committee has already indicated that they really don’t want any more legislation sent over there,” he said. His motion passed 3-2, and Ficklin was backed by votes from council members Elaine Lucas and Virgil Watkins.
“We are not going to get this legislation done under this council, it looks like,” Committee Chairman Tom Ellington said. The transition task force’s Laws Committee, on the advice of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, has decided that any ordinances the city or county pass after Oct. 15 will be sent to the new Macon-Bibb commission separate from the list of unified ordinances that probably will be adopted quickly.
Several people showed up to talk about the proposal, and Ellington offered to let them speak, though Council President James Timley argued that shouldn’t be allowed since the item already had been tabled. Ellington allowed people to speak despite Timley’s objection.
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