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Charter panel debates attendance rules and recommends bylaws for future commission
Summary
Members reviewed proposed meeting and attendance requirements for future charter commissions, debated numerical triggers for removal and whether rules should be prescriptive or left for the next commission to adopt in bylaws, and directed colleagues to submit drafting recommendations by the next meeting.
Mount Vernon’s Charter Review Commission discussed proposed meeting cadence and absence-trigger rules on Jan. 15, with members split between a prescriptive numeric rule and allowing future commissions to adopt bylaws.
Pamela Boyd, a member of the Charter Review Commission, walked the group through the proposed attendance language and said an initial draft had specified that missing three consecutive in-person meetings or five meetings of any kind would trigger a review.…
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