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Council adopts continuity-of-government ordinance setting mayoral succession order
Summary
After an amendment and debate about committee order, the council adopted an emergency-planning ordinance that specifies a temporary line of succession for mayoral authority until the council convenes to select an acting mayor.
The City Council adopted substitute bill 25‑048 on March 3, creating a new continuity-of-government section to clarify temporary mayoral succession in the event both the mayor and mayor pro tem are unavailable.
Under the new section (codified as a continuity-of-government provision in chapter 10 of the code), succession moves to a defined order of committee chairs after the mayor pro tem, and the substitute includes language that the order applies only until the…
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