It will consider overriding the veto on Tuesday.
The mayor vetoed the proposal as costly and unlikely to win public acceptance, but the Council will consider overriding it in early December.
The Association of Towns of the State of New York estimated that, based on historical budgeting data, about a third of New York's 932 towns might also consider overriding the cap.
With Democrats thwarting Mr. Bush's judicial nominees, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican majority leader, considered overriding filibusters with a majority vote.
Mr. Povman said that he had considered overriding the board's vote but that he had instead asked the Parks Department to use the money to build a bathroom at Queens Valley Playground in Kew Gardens Hills.
To the horror of American officials here, Mr. Karzai had strongly considered overriding the Election Complaint Commission, a United Nations-backed body that found that nearly a million ballots had been forged for Mr. Karzai, and declaring himself the winner.
In New Hampshire, by contrast, where the state legislature is scheduled to meet this week to consider overriding the governor's veto and passing a medical marijuana law, government downsizing has colored the debate.
Equally hysterical Republicans, fearing a British-style aristocracy, challenged voters to choose between "peace or war, happiness or misery, opulence or ruin!" When Republicans won in New York, some Federalists considered overriding the results, preferring civil war to Jefferson as president.
"So while I like and respect Gen. Mattis a great deal, the House of Representatives would have to perform a full review, including hearings by the Armed Services Committee, if it were to consider overriding the statutory prohibition on recent military officers serving as the secretary of Defense".
Stevenson considers override to be the most pressing death-penalty issue.
Protection for journalists: clarification that the judicial commissioner will be required to consider 'the overriding public interest' when authorising the use of communications data to identify a journalist's sources.
