After lengthy remarks suggesting that the Scott administration was “overly punitive” to a Black businessman, City Council President Nick Mosby found himself alone today when the Board of Estimates voted to terminate a contract with Universal Towing LLC.
As happened two week ago, Mosby used his control of the board’s agenda to allow the tow company’s attorney and owner to question the motivations of Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming, who issued a report critical of the company’s handling of three police-initiated tows.
The Scott administration suspended the company based on Cumming’s findings that it had disregarded police instructions to drop off the vehicles at a city lot and failed to run proper VIN checks on the vehicles.
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