-- the City Attorney and the Mayor's Office are pointing (counting) fingers at each other about a screwup over the number of days Mayor Newsom has to exercise his veto power.

So on June 24, the Board of Supes denied approval for a proposal to build a 40-foot hotel on the waterfront. At the time, Newsom said he might veto the proposal but was interested in maybe working out some kind of compromise to keep the hotel plans afloat.

The bill was delivered to Newsom's office on June 30. Here's where it gets screwy. So the City Attorney (and the Board of Supes) calculated that Gavin didn't need to sign the veto until yesterday, the 11th. (We apparently don't have a pocket veto in San Francisco.) However, the city clerk has taken the position that Newsom had to veto the bill within 10 calendar days or it would become law. 10 calendar days from June 30 was Sunday the 10th. Oops.

Newsom's now hoping the Board will still be willing to work with him on getting a compromise on the hotel. And it does seem a little weird -- even if we assume that weekends count as "days" for the clerk's office, does July 4, since holidays are usually excluded from time-limit calculations? Meanwhile, as it stands, the bill is now law and there will be no hotel built on the site.

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