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Charter subcommittee recommends not changing Sunnyvale rule requiring two meetings per month; debates vacancy timing and maximum appointees
Summary
Subcommittee 1 presented its report on Section 6.11 (regular meetings) and Section 6.06 (vacancies) and recommended keeping the twice‑monthly meeting requirement but sought full‑committee feedback and public comment on vacancy timing and cap on appointees.
Subcommittee 1 presented its report on Section 6.11 (regular meetings) and Section 6.06 (vacancies) to the Sunnyvale Charter Review Committee on June 30 and recommended no change to the twice‑monthly meeting requirement while flagging tradeoffs for vacancy rules.
Member Vickrey, reporting for the subcommittee on regular meetings, said the council currently meets about 40 times per year and that changing the twice‑monthly charter requirement would probably not reduce the number of meetings given current workload. The subcommittee’s view, Vickrey said, was that “a change in this provision seems to provide little opportunity to remedy the concern about how often the council is having to meet because it apparently is having to meet that often because of the workload it has.”
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