The Salt Lake City Council voted swiftly Friday to override a key budget veto by Mayor Jackie Biskupski, effectively leaving in place the council's decision to move control of a $2.59 million loan fund for affordable housing to a different arm of city government.
With a 7-0 vote and no discussion, the council upheld its decision to transfer the city’s Housing Loan Trust fund on a yearlong trial basis away from the purview of the Housing and Neighborhood Development Division, or HAND, to the city’s Redevelopment Agency, over which the council has more say.
But council members conceded to pleas from the Biskupski administration and freed up money for one crucial spending item among nearly $1.