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Council approves routine procedural items including agenda, rule suspension and minutes during Oct. 21 work session
Summary
During the Oct. 21 Los Alamos County Council work session, councilors approved the evening agenda, suspended procedural rules to permit action during a work session, and approved several sets of meeting minutes. All motions passed unanimously in the roll calls recorded in the transcript; the council recorded the absences where noted.
Los Alamos County Councilors used a series of short motions at the Oct. 21 work session to approve the agenda, suspend rules for the work session and adopt recent meeting minutes.
Approve agenda: A motion to approve the Oct. 21 work-session agenda was made by Councilor Reiting and seconded by Councilor Reigore (as recorded in the meeting transcript). A roll-call vote was recorded as five in favor, zero opposed; the transcript recorded two councilors absent at the time. The clerk announced: “Motion passes 5 0 with 2 councilors absent.”
Suspend procedural rules (to allow formal action in the work session): A motion to suspend the council’s procedural rules for the work session was made by Councilor Reardon and seconded (second attributed in the transcript). The roll call recorded the motion as passing unanimously by an announced tally of four yes, zero no (three councilors were recorded absent at that point in the meeting).
Approval of minutes: The council approved several meeting minutes by motion and roll call. A motion to approve the regular-session minutes for Sept. 30 and Oct. 7, 2025 passed on a roll call recorded as 4–0 with three councilors absent. A separate motion to approve the Oct. 2, 2025 special meeting minutes also passed by recorded roll-call tally 4–0 with three councilors absent.
The meeting transcript records each motion, the mover and seconder names as spoken and the roll-call tallies; the council’s formal votes that evening were procedural and unanimous in recorded tallies.
Speakers (motions): Councilor Reiting (moved agenda approval), Councilor Reigore (seconded agenda approval), Councilor Reardon (moved suspension of rules), and other councilors who registered “yes” votes in the roll calls as recorded in the transcript. Absent councilors were noted in the roll calls; the clerk read the roll-call tallies aloud each time.
Ending: The procedural approvals allowed the work session to proceed with presentations, public comment and the remainder of the agenda items recorded in the transcript.
Actions (summary list) below documents the motions as recorded in the meeting transcript; motion language below reflects the wording captured in the meeting record.
