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Charter limits on commissioner‑staff contact highlighted; city clerk explains process
Summary
At the April 3 hearing commissioners and residents discussed the charter provision that channels communications through the city manager; City Clerk Mike Moss said the charter requires most commissioner communications with staff go through the city manager, a rule intended to protect day‑to‑day operations from politicization.
Discussion at the April 3 Local Government Study Commission hearing focused in part on the role of the city manager and a charter provision that limits direct communications between individual commissioners and staff.
Mary Bateson asked whether commissioners were “not allowed to directly engage with the city staff,” and City Clerk Mike Moss responded that the current City Charter contains a provision that communications, “except for inquiries, are to go…
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