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Committee backs changing charter removal threshold for charter officers to a majority vote
Summary
The committee voted to recommend removing the requirement for a supermajority to remove charter officers, proposing instead a simple majority vote with a required public hearing; the committee left the removal clause in the charter rather than deleting it entirely.
The Charter Review Committee recommended editing the town charter to replace the current supermajority removal requirement for charter officers with a simple majority vote of the full council, while retaining a requirement for a public hearing before removal.
Committee members discussed two approaches: keep removal language in the charter but change the threshold from a supermajority to a majority, or remove the provision from the charter…
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