My neighborhood emails lists have been buzzing with a notice for the September 12 city council session, when the council supposedly planned to discuss Drug and Prostitution Free Zones (which are slated to sunset on September 30).

Hold up! This just in via one of the city’s crime prevention coordinators:

We wanted to let you know that yesterday at about 5:30 PM, the Mayor’s Office pulled the Drug Free Zone / Prostitution Free Zone (DFZ / PFZ) Exclusion Ordinances from the City Council Sept 12th Agenda. At this time it has not been re-scheduled.

Matt and Scott had a piece in last week’s paper, explaining how Mayor Potter screwed up, and didn’t appoint an oversight committee to examine the zones. Instead, he handed the task over to an individual consultant, John Campbell—and he didn’t give the consultant sufficient time to complete the work.

Campbell didn’t receive the contract from the mayor’s office to do the DFZ work until July 30—a mere two months before the zones expire. The mayor’s office is expecting him to deliver a report by mid-September (as early as September 12), but he’s unsure if he’ll be done in time.

“We received the contract to do the analysis at the end of July,” he told the Mercury, “and I’m doing my best to be able to tell them something, but I doubt very much that there’ll be any kind of full report by September 12.”

Indeed.