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Council members debate legality of prior organizational resolution; staff to refile as ordinance
Summary
Councilors raised legal questions about a 2019 resolution that reorganized departments, with some members saying the change was permanent in effect and should have been adopted as an ordinance; the council directed staff to reword and refile the restructuring for a future council vote.
Council members discussed whether a prior document that changed Alexander City’s organizational chart was correctly adopted and whether the changes should have been enacted by ordinance rather than resolution.
A council member noted that an organizational chart change originally discussed in 2019 appeared in meeting discussion and in budget materials but was not attached to a final resolution in the public records: “I pulled up our budget where we were told it was passed… nowhere is it mentioned in the legislation chart on here, nor is it attached on…
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