Ald. Scott Waguespack (32), middle, speaks with Ald. Bill Conway (34), left, at a City Council meeting on Feb. 19, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

A majority of the City Council signed on to a substitute annual revenue ordinance introduced at Wednesday’s council meeting that swaps out some of the mayor’s solutions to a nearly $1.2 billion budget gap, including a new corporate head tax, and adds in its place higher garbage collection fees and liquor sales taxes, higher taxes and fees on short-term vacation rentals and the legalization of video gambling systems within city limits.