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Ypsilanti council directs staff to design formal onboarding for new council members
Summary
Council voted to direct the city manager and clerk to develop a formal onboarding process for newly elected or appointed council members, after debating which elements should be staff-led and which are the council’s responsibility.
The Ypsilanti City Council voted to ask the city manager and city clerk to develop a comprehensive onboarding process for newly elected or appointed council members, specifying that the proposed program be brought back to council for review.
Councilmember Amber Fellows introduced the resolution after describing her own experience as a newly seated councilmember and the difficulty of learning procedures and key documents without a formal process. The resolution asks staff to assemble a digital information…
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