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Irondale council debates how abstentions are recorded after consent-agenda vote
Summary
Council members questioned how abstentions were applied to a multi-item consent agenda and asked staff and legal how the record could be corrected without undoing enacted items.
Irondale City Council members spent the start of the meeting disputing how abstentions were recorded on a recent consent-agenda vote and whether individual items can be revisited.
The discussion mattered because a council member said the city clerk’s minutes showed her as abstaining on all consent items when she intended to abstain only on some. Councilwoman Cindy Cuellar said for the record, “That is that was not my intent to abstain on all of the consent agenda items. My intent was to abstain on some…
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