Portmore Mayor George Lee has threatened to go to the Supreme Court to get the right to vote on several committees in the Portmore Municipal Council (PMC).

Lee made the pronouncement at the PMC's general council meeting held on Tuesday night.

"For sometime, I have being thinking about the fact that as chairman I am not allowed to vote on committees within the council," Lee expressed to his fellow councillors.

He told the council that as an ex-officio member he intends to change the rule of the PMC and vote on committees.

"I will be voting and I will even take it to the Supreme Court to exercise that right," Lee said.

The mayor at the PMC, which is in its 10th year of existence, has always been prevented from voting on the committees within the council.

A number of persons who attended the rescheduled meeting said some thoughts should be given to the mayor's suggestion.

"If it's a rule and he wants it to be change then he has to challenge it legally in the courts," a Portmore resident who attended the meeting told THE PORTMORE STAR.

The matter is to be discussed at the next general sitting of the council which has been scheduled for next month.

- R.T.