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Former planning director urges Topeka committee to add enforcement mechanisms to charter
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Bill Feander, former Topeka planning director, told the Citizens Government Review Committee that while the city charter draws clear limits on council administrative powers, it lacks an effective enforcement mechanism to curb repeated interference in administrative operations.
Bill Feander, former planning director for the City of Topeka and currently a lecturer at Washburn University, told the Citizens Government Review Committee on May 21 that the city charter draws “bright lines” between the legislative and administrative sides of city government but contains little to enforce those prohibitions.
Feander said the charter language is explicit — council “shall have no administrative powers” — but he told the committee he found no effective enforcement mechanism when he reviewed the document. “There is no enforcement of those bright lines between executive side of the government and the…
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