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Riviera Beach CRA allows mayor to sit on dais as nonvoting ex‑officio member
Summary
After a legal opinion and debate over precedent, the Riviera Beach Community Redevelopment Agency voted to permit Mayor Douglas Lawson to sit on the dais and participate in discussion as a nonvoting ex‑officio member; voting rights would require a bylaws change.
The Riviera Beach Community Redevelopment Agency voted Aug. 27 to allow Mayor Douglas Lawson to sit on the CRA dais and participate in meetings as a nonvoting ex‑officio member after a lawyer’s opinion that the agency’s bylaws do not give the mayor an automatic seat.
Attorney Chris Smith told the board the CRA bylaws are silent on mayoral participation and that, under those bylaws, the mayor “does not have by right under the bylaws of this organization the right to sit on the dais.” Smith said the chair may extend a courtesy to allow the mayor to participate as a nonvoting…
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