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Port Huron council declines to consider city manager performance review after no motion
Summary
A request by the mayor and a council member to begin a performance review of City Manager James Fried failed at the Port Huron City Council meeting when no council member moved the item, ending formal consideration and prompting a procedural dispute about points of order and agenda control.
At Tuesday’s Port Huron City Council meeting, a proposal to open a performance review of City Manager James Fried failed after no council member moved the request, Mayor Anita R. Ashford said.
The request — introduced by a council member who did not give a clear name on the record and described as coming from “myself and Miss Mayor Ashford” — was placed on the agenda as a late addition, the speaker said. When the mayor asked for a motion, none was offered. “Hearing none, then that fails,” Mayor Anita R. Ashford said, citing Robert’s Rules of Order as the basis for the outcome.
Council rules and parliamentary procedure shaped what followed. A staff member, Todd,…
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