By JIM BUTLER

Mayor Jacques Roy pulls no punches in his message vetoing the Alexandria City Council’s latest reapportionment ordinance.

The question now is can the Council override at its meeting next Tuesday?

That requires a two-thirds vote from the seven members — five under Robert’s Rules.

The ordinance passed 4-3 last week. The four are virtually certain to vote override. They need a fifth.

Lizzie Felter, whose District 3 boundaries are the meat of the coconut, will vote no.

District 5 member Chuck Fowler and at-large member Jim Villard are the other members of the trio.

Roy said this month’s reversal of the 2024 reapportionment “reflects an apparent attempt to arrogate unto itself the people’s power to elect their own representatives.”

The 2024 vote altered boundaries established in a 2022 council vote.

The mayor labels the current chapter “more political theater – the fictional kind – than genuine mapping oversight.”