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Port Orchard council debates policy on council endorsements, directs staff to prepare repeal ordinance
Summary
Council members spent more than an hour debating whether the council as a body should formally endorse levies, bonds and ballot measures; after extended discussion the council asked staff to prepare an ordinance to repeal the current restriction, with a public hearing and notice required before any policy change.
Port Orchard City Council members debated whether the council should take formal positions on local levies, bonds and ballot measures during the Jan. 21 study session. The discussion ran through a range of policy, legal and political concerns and ended with council direction that staff prepare an ordinance to repeal the city’s current restriction on council endorsement — subject to the public-notice and hearing process required by law.
Why it matters: the existing ordinance limits the council’s ability to use city facilities or issue official statements supporting or opposing ballot measures; repealing it would allow the council, as a body, to take positions after the formal public hearing process. City staff told the council that any…
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