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Committee favors brief moratorium on council action related to city manager removal during transition period

2242527 · February 6, 2025
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Summary

House Bill 109 would bar city councils in the interim between November elections and January seating of new members from adopting ordinances that would make removal of a city manager harder; the Senate committee recommended the bill favorably after hearing concerns from the League of Cities and Towns.

Representative Abbott presented House Bill 109, which would expand an existing restriction by prohibiting a city council in the interim period between a November election and the seating of a new council in January from adopting ordinances that make it harder to remove a city manager. "That's the interim period...what this does is it adds one provision that says the city council, in that interim…

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