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Irondale council holds work session to clarify after-hours access policy and key access
Summary
Council members met in a 5:30 p.m. work session to discuss a recently passed resolution limiting after-hours access to City Hall, raising questions about keys, sign-in procedures and who controls building security; no formal change to the resolution was made and councilmembers agreed to return to the issue with absent members present.
Irondale City Council met for a 5:30 p.m. work session to discuss a resolution passed at a prior meeting that changed after-hours access to City Hall and the counselors’ conference room.
Council members said the resolution’s intent was to add a safety layer — sign-in logs and dispatch notification — while still allowing after-hours work, but that implementation had caused confusion about key access and custody of security. “The goal or the intent was never to prevent anyone from being able to do anything,” Councilman Box said, adding that the policy was “meant to do was simply provide a layer of safety, a sign in sheet so that everybody knows who's in the building.”
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