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Council amends Jan. 23 minutes to record a missed vote by a council member
Summary
The council voted to amend the Jan. 23, 2025 minutes to note that one council member failed to cast a vote on a motion for reconsideration; the amendment to the minutes was approved and then the minutes were adopted as amended.
The Kirkwood City Council voted to amend the minutes of its Jan. 23, 2025 meeting to record that a council member failed to cast a vote on a previously recorded unanimous approval of a motion for reconsideration.
A council member asked that the minutes be amended to reflect that she “failed to cast a vote” rather than being shown as having participated in the unanimous approval. Council discussion clarified that a failure to vote is treated as an abstention in the record but that the member had neither cast an abstention nor an affirmative vote at the prior meeting. The council amended the minutes to add language such as “the motion for reconsideration was unanimously approved with Council member Lutzow failing to cast a vote” (name spelling as recorded in the minutes) and then voted to approve the minutes as amended.
Action: The council approved the amendment to the minutes and then adopted the minutes as amended. During the vote on the amendment, the mayor recorded, “Aye. Opposed? Nay. Nay. And 1 abstention.”
Context: The change is a clerical correction to the official minutes to reflect the prior meeting record accurately; no policy change resulted from the amendment.
