Doug Stephens

With five members of the Ogden City Council voting to override Mayor Matthew Godfrey's veto of three line items of the FY2010 budget, we would like to explain the rationale for the override. Lots of people have been asking "why?"

First of all, the mayor has been using words like "unconstitutional," "illegal" and "unlawful" to describe the council's decisions. All of these claims would need to be sorted out in a court of law. We believe that we were well within the boundaries of state law when we set policy for the city. And for the record, we have no immediate plans to take the mayor to court.