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Council preserves three-touch idea, tweaks meeting-extension rule and reorders agenda items
Summary
Councilors favored a three-touch notification rule to reduce surprises, debated whether the obligation should be mandatory, and agreed to allow one-hour meeting extensions by majority vote; they also moved informational reports earlier in the agenda and scheduled a follow-up workshop.
City councilors on Sept. 30 reviewed proposed rules intended to reduce late surprises in council decisionmaking (a so-called "three-touch" rule), discussed the order of business on regular agendas, and changed the draft meeting-extension language to allow a one-hour extension for any meeting by majority vote.
Supporters described the three-touch rule as a transparency measure to give council members and the public repeated notice about…
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