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Committee adds email option for special-meeting notice, to cite state law for emergency meetings
Summary
The Rules & Ethics Committee agreed to add email as an acceptable method to notify council members about special meetings and to include a subparagraph referencing the West Virginia Open Meetings Act for emergency meetings, while declining to impose stricter local limits on emergency meeting timing.
The Huntington City Council Rules and Ethics Committee voted on Sept. 17 to add email to the list of acceptable notice methods for special meetings and to add a subparagraph formally referencing the West Virginia Open Meetings Act to govern emergency meetings.
Committee members discussed resident complaints about short public notice for last-minute special or emergency sessions. The committee separated the two categories: special meetings (created by council rules) and emergency meetings (governed by state statute). Members said adding email as a method of notifying council members modernizes the existing notification list (which…
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