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City administrator: June 30 public hearing and called meeting will decide annexation at 1220 Golf Course Road
Summary
City Administrator James Fincher told the Board of Aldermen the June 10 motion does not decide annexation itself but advances the annexation request to a required public hearing on June 30, with a called meeting to follow the hearing for the final up-or-down vote.
City Administrator James Fincher told the Newport Board of Aldermen on June 10 that the council's vote regarding an annexation petition for property near the golf course is only to move the process to a public hearing, not to approve or reject annexation.
'This is not a vote tonight on annexation. This is is a vote to move the process forward to the public hearing phase,' Fincher said during the meeting, adding that the city must follow the current state-law process requiring a hearing before a final up-or-down vote.
Fincher explained the state law change that removed routine forced annexation and replaced it with owner-request or referendum-based…
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