MONROE, LA (AP) — The controversial mobile food vendor ordinance will once again come before the Monroe City Council.
The ordinance, which was written and submitted by City Council Chairman Ray Armstrong, was the cause of much public debate earlier this year as local businesses and Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo expressed their disagreement and the council voted not to introduce the bill.
Mayo threatened to veto the ordinance if it did pass earlier this year.
Armstrong tells The News-Star’s Kaleb Causey he has rewritten the ordinance so that all of the concerns from the previous debates have been addressed.
If the ordinance were to be passed at the council's next meeting, it would allow for mobile food vendors, such as food trucks, hot dog carts and other forms, to operate in the city of Monroe.
