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Committee rejects charter change to ban emergency sales of city property
Summary
The Sandusky charter-review committee debated adding requirements for public hearings and planning commission referrals before selling, leasing or encumbering city real property and considered removing emergency-sale authority. The committee voted down both an amendment to bar emergency sales and the broader proposed restriction.
The charter-review committee on Monday considered language that would have barred the city from selling, leasing or otherwise encumbering city-owned real property without city commission action, a public hearing and a referral to the planning commission — and would have removed the ability to treat such transactions as emergency measures.
Supporters said the change is intended to protect parks and other public assets and ensure a transparent public process. “No city owned interest in real property shall be sold, leased, or otherwise encumbered without action by the city commission, nor without a public hearing, nor without a referral to the planning commission for recommendation to the city…
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