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Sedona council updates rules of procedure; moves agenda team to city manager, adds executive‑session reporting
Summary
The Sedona City Council reviewed and approved several edits to its rules of procedure, shifting routine agenda management to the city manager’s office, adding executive‑session reporting to future agendas and raising the threshold for council‑initiated agenda items.
The Sedona City Council spent a substantive portion of its work session reviewing redlined revisions to the council rules of procedure. Kurt (staff) walked the council through the proposed edits and explained each change in turn. Much of the discussion focused on transparency, council‑manager roles and practical meeting operations under Arizona’s open‑meeting law.
On agenda setting, councilors agreed that the operational agenda‑team task should be carried out under the city manager or city clerk rather than by a permanently constituted council agenda team. Kurt summarized the practical intent: the city manager would decide who to involve in staff agenda planning and could still invite the mayor, vice mayor or a councilor when appropriate. Councilors discussed whether those agenda‑team sessions should be public or viewable; staff said the meeting could be made available as a view‑only Teams link if council wants broader observation.
Councilors also agreed on a change…
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