Novato council delays minimum-wage vote after spirited hearing
Will Houston - Marin IJ
After a heated, four-hour debate filled with occasional outbursts, passionate testimony and one business owner telling the mayor to “go to hell,” the Novato City Council opted this week to delay its bid to fast-track the state’s minimum wage hike.
“I’m struggling all the time to be able to support them,” Lua said, speaking through interpreter Alex Early of the National Union of Healthcare Workers. “I think now that we’re probably going to have to move out of Novato after so many years living here.”