Just in case you can’t get enough, here’s an executive summary of the AB 506 process. It points out, among many things, that this mediation process has a 60-day time limit, and the clock starts ticking on the day that a neutral evaluator is selected.
The city announced that it and the interested parties had selected Ralph Mabey on March 27, putting the two-month finish line on May 27, which is the Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend.
At that point, if they haven’t reached a deal or talks haven’t totally broken down and everybody agrees to it, they can extend it another 30 days, which puts them at the end of June – crunch time – because July 1 is D-day for having the city’s budget adopted.
