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Charter review board will meet with county attorney to consider clarifying home‑rule language after COVID-era EPG concerns
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Charter review board member Miss Hall urged the Hillsborough County Charter Review Board on May 13 to amend charter sections 2.01 and 9.01 to remove legal ambiguity she says left the county vulnerable during the COVID response.
Charter review board member Miss Hall urged the Hillsborough County Charter Review Board on May 13 to amend charter sections 2.01 and 9.01 to remove legal ambiguity she says left the county vulnerable during the COVID response.
Hall said the changes are meant to "clarify and align 2.01 and 9.01 in our charter to ensure that they reflect the constitutional structure we are bound by, to protect the county's lawful autonomy and prevent costly litigation by legal ambiguities." She told the board the Emergency Policy Group or EPG formed during the pandemic "was formed outside the authority granted in our charter" and that ambiguity in those sections allowed it to operate "in a legal gray area."
The county attorney, Mary Helen Farris, said…
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