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Council hears final charter-review questions on vacancies, municipal judge authority and personnel rules
Summary
City attorney Ross led a detailed discussion of proposed charter edits: how council vacancies should be filled, whether the municipal judge should be explicitly authorized to issue administrative (noncriminal) warrants, and whether personnel-rule authority should remain with council or be delegated to the city manager.
Stayton’s City Council held an extended discussion on April 7 about several charter provisions under review, focusing on Section 33 (vacancies), Section 36 (municipal judge) and Section 37 (personnel rules).
Ross, the city attorney, summarized the options for Section 33, which currently authorizes the mayor to fill council vacancies with council consent. He described an alternative, a model-charter approach that would have council as a whole lead the appointment process and flagged a rare scenario the charter does not explicitly address: "What happens if we get down in number of councilors and there’s no longer a…
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