After hearing from Seattle city council members Tim Burgess and Sally Bagshaw yesterday —particularly Bagshaw, an attorney, who told us the council would "ratify" council president Richard Conlin's signature on the deep bore tunnel draft environmental impact statement tomorrow, we called Mayor Mike McGinn's office to get his take.

On Friday McGinn, also an attorney, read from the city charter, making the case that Conlin' signature violated the city charter because only the mayor has the authority to sign the agreement. (In our interview with Bagshaw on Saturday, she cited a section of the city charter herself, arguing that Conlin did have  the authority to sign the draft statement.)

McGinn spokesman Aaron Pickus simply repeated Mayor McGinn's statement: "His [Conlin's] act of signing the SDEIS [supplemental draft environmental impact statement] was a violation of the charter."

Pickus did not give us any comment about Bagshaw's statement to PubliCola that the full council would "ratify" Conlin's signature on Monday.

The mayor, Pickus said, was busy this weekend writing his budget speech for Monday.