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Resident urges board to act on vice mayor’s prolonged absences
Summary
A resident called on the Bluff City Board to use charter authority to remove the vice mayor after the official reportedly missed a majority of meetings over the prior six months; the comment urged the board to appoint a replacement and select a new vice mayor.
During the meeting’s public comment period, a resident publicly asked the Bluff City Board to address prolonged absences by the vice mayor and to exercise the town charter’s removal procedures if the absences are unexplained.
The commenter said they had compiled an attendance list showing the vice mayor missed roughly 83% of regular meetings in the past six months, 70% of special-called meetings and 100% of workshops during the same period, and urged the board to act under Article 3, sections 10, 6 and 7 of the town charter to remove the alderman for unexplained absence, appoint a replacement and select a new vice mayor. The speaker told the board they had not seen a resignation letter on file.
Board members did not take formal action on the request at the meeting; the speaker’s remarks were entered into the record during the second public comment period and the meeting adjourned at 7:34 p.m.
