SAN ANTONIO — Twenty-four hours before Thursday morning's City Council meeting, San Antonio leaders appeared poised to discuss and potentially approve new rules clamping down on people who abandon dogs or other animals.

On Wednesday night, however, an updated version of the public meeting agenda showed that the item had been withdrawn for consideration. The reason why harkens back to this summer's stalemate between Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and a cohort of council members who asserted she was acting unilaterally when she announced she was adding new checkboxes to be ticked off when leaders submit a new policy initiative.

The disagreement over whether or not Mayor Jones improperly sidestepped existing city rules was hashed out in a special Aug. 13 meeting. At issue was whether or not ther

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