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Council debates town halls, city communications and limits on use of public resources for charter replacement
Summary
Pepper Pike council debated Feb. 11 whether city-sponsored town halls, mailings or website posts about a proposed replacement charter would be informational or impermissible advocacy, and directed staff to prepare legal guidance and an FAQ for council review.
(This article describes a long discussion in the Feb. 11 meeting about using city resources to inform residents about a proposed replacement charter. It summarizes legal guidance provided, competing views in council about a mayoral posting, and next steps the council asked staff to take.)
The council spent more than an hour on Feb. 11 debating whether and how to use public resources — town halls, mailings and website postings — to provide information about a proposed replacement charter that council previously placed on the ballot. The city’s law director and other speakers framed the issue around the legal line between permissible information and impermissible advocacy.
Law Director Steve (last name…
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