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Governance Committee discusses standardizing committee rules, seeks more time to finalize resolution
Summary
The Governance Committee discussed a draft resolution to standardize committee rules on April 7 but did not adopt final rules; members asked for more detail and for a follow-up work session before returning a formal resolution.
The Governance Committee held a substantive discussion on April 7 about proposed committee rules and procedures intended to standardize practices across council committees, but members did not adopt rules and asked staff to return with a more formal resolution.
Committee members and staff reviewed an attachment posted with the agenda that covered meeting notice, quorum, agenda filing, public testimony, recording and minutes, motions and amendments, documents accompanying items, suspension of rules and conflict of interest. The item was a discussion only; the committee did not vote on final rules.
Members and commenters pressed several recurring themes:
- Notice and agenda timing: Committee members debated aligning committee posting language with existing Portland City Code language that requires at least 24 hours’ posting, but…
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