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Charter Review Committee members spar over meeting schedule and internal decision-making; formal rescind to be set for next meeting
Summary
Committee members disagreed about changes to subcommittee meeting rotations and whether individual members acted outside the body; a motion to reconsider the meeting-rotation vote will be placed on the next agenda.
Members of the Augusta City Charter Review Committee spent much of the June 25 meeting debating committee process after a recent vote to alternate subcommittee meeting weeks prompted objections from several members who said individual members had tried to change the schedule outside of a full-body vote.
The dispute began after committee staff reported a phone poll that had allowed a previously noticed meeting to proceed. Attorney Rex Plunkett advised members that any motion to rescind a previously adopted action would have to be made at the next committee meeting and could not be resolved that day. Committee…
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