The next step in GAEDA’s not paying two invoices from the city seems up to Mayor Jacques Roy’s administration.

A motion to pay a total of about $113,000 for work at the Weiss & Golding building failed to get a second from Greater Alexandria Economic Development Authority members at their June meeting.

Absent that second there was no discussion that might indicate how wide the schism between the Authority and the city is.

GAEDA’s attorney in early May recommended it move to nullify a cooperative endeavor agreement for refurbishing the long-vacant building for development purposes as well as future plans for the Bolton Avenue Community Center.

Whether that ever got formal consideration is not clear. Roy took conciliatory steps in the interim. What the current rub is is uncertain.

In matters that did get a second, the board approved paying attorney costs incurred by it and its executive director over litigation by then-member John Callis.

He won in district court, over a disputed meeting last February, then lost when the board appealed to the circuit court.

Callis is seeking review of the case by the state Supreme Court. The Authority has until mid-July to respond to that petition.

Callis has since resigned. Whether members John Carroll and Chris Patel did likewise is indeterminate but they apparently are no longer members under attendance requirements of the Authority Rules of Procedure.

Three absences in a calendar year sans acceptable reason is the limit. Neither has attended meetings in the wake of the new board majority formed following city elections.

The three vacancies leave the board at its quorum number – 4. An absence by any one of them results in no official business conducted, as occurred at May’s meeting.

Each City Council member has an appointment, routinely approved by the panel. There is as yet no indication of nominations for the empty Authority seats.

The Authority was created as an independent agency funded by a hotel-motel occupancy tax.