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Commissioners, council members disagree on rule change process; board calls for legal clarification
Summary
The St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners debated whether a recent County Council rules change should have been transmitted to the commissioners for review and whether state law requires certain council resolutions to come to the board.
During new business at the March 18 St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners meeting, commissioners and several callers debated a recent County Council rules change that alters which items appear on the council agenda and who controls that agenda.
The board’s presiding commissioner (recorded in the transcript as the meeting president) said the County Council on March 11 passed a rules change by a 5–4 vote allowing the council president to set the council agenda and that the change creates new procedures for petitioners to appeal an agenda decision. The presiding commissioner said the change “represents a…
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