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Sunnyside City Council adopts updated rules of procedure after series of amendments
Summary
After hours of debate and several amendments on supermajority requirements and invocation language, the Sunnyside City Council approved a resolution adopting revised rules of procedure.
The Sunnyside City Council on Jan. 27, 2025, voted to adopt an amended set of council rules of procedure, approving a resolution that replaces the prior rules and incorporates several changes made during the meeting.
The rules committee drafted the rewrite and presented it for final council approval. Council members spent more than an hour debating how the document handles presiding officers, the invocation or moment of silence at meetings, and where the council should require a “supermajority” (listed in the draft as “majority plus 1”) for certain actions. The council voted on several amendments before taking the final vote to adopt the resolution.
Councilors discussed adding language to let a chair…
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