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Rules Committee backs ordinance setting mayoral succession order, includes two-year service requirement
Summary
The committee recommended Bill 25-048, an ordinance amending the city's emergency and disaster planning code to establish an order of temporary mayoral succession, to the full City Council. The draft sets committee chair order, fallback by seniority, and a two-year council service qualification for acting mayor.
The Lee's Summit Rules Committee voted to recommend Bill 25-048, an ordinance to add a continuity-of-government section to Chapter 10 (Emergency and Disaster Planning) establishing rules for temporary mayoral succession in the event of absence or disability.
City staff presented the ordinance text and said it would place the chairs of standing council committees in a defined succession order, followed by fallback to councilmembers by seniority if no committee chair is available. The draft also requires a person serving as chair of a listed committee to have "first served for 2 years at any time…
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