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Council to ratify and then terminate mayor’s emergency declaration and curfew; members debate end timing
Summary
After the mayor issued an emergency declaration and curfew in response to safety concerns, council staff prepared a resolution to ratify the declaration and to terminate it; councilmembers debated whether the termination should be immediate or delayed.
The Spokane Mayor issued a declaration of emergency and imposed a curfew from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m.; city staff told a council subcommittee on June 15 that council is required by code to respond to the mayor’s declaration and that a proposed resolution would both ratify the declaration and terminate it effective the following day at 5 a.m.
Attorney staff explained the resolution’s standard language also limits the mayor’s emergency procurement…
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