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Commission debate exposes how Charter Review resolution was drafted and who handled it
Summary
Augusta Richmond County commissioners spent more than an hour questioning the provenance of the resolution that created the Charter Review Committee, focusing on whether staff in the mayor’s office compiled the draft from outside examples and whether general counsel saw it before the body voted.
Augusta Richmond County commissioners spent the bulk of their Oct. 7 meeting probing who drafted and circulated the resolution that established the Charter Review Committee and how it moved to the commission for a vote.
The debate centered on whether the Carl Vinson Institute supplied example language and whether the mayor’s office — specifically Chief of Staff Jasmine Sims — compiled the draft before it reached the commission. Several commissioners said they had expected the clerk’s office and the administrator to be the committee’s point of contact; others said they were concerned that an elected official’s office had been more involved than previously indicated.
“I believe that we're referring to the September 28 email. Those were a collective of actual snippets from the resolutions we have received from Carl Vinson … they were all brought to me as ideas,” Jasmine Sims told the…
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