Add this to the New Charter Watch file since we may end up seeing a lot of clarification and talk about how the current Home Rule Charter works:

Nutter: Wait for written ruling before appealing library closures

As Tom said earlier today, the library issue seems to have won Nutter nothing and in fact set him up for an examination of the power of mayor vis-a-vis City Council that he probably wasn’t looking for.

YPP’s Ray Murphy has a New Year’s resolution for the city:

We need to let members of Council know that under the right conditions, we would pay more in taxes.

We’d forgo a wage tax decrease from casino revenue. We would also support a change in the property tax formula. We support closing business tax loopholes. And a lot of us think that very high wage earners should pay a bigger share than they do now.

If we did pay more in taxes, we’d certainly expect more in representation from our electeds than we have now. But I think that is a demand Council and the Mayor could meet.

So in the coming weeks, we need to let Council know that we have their backs on taxes. That’s an easy new Year’s resolution right?