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Committee recommends easing removal standard for charter officers to majority vote; keeps 4-vote rule for land-use changes
Summary
The charter review committee voted 10–2 to recommend changing the town charter so charter officers (town manager and town attorney) can be removed by a simple majority rather than a supermajority. Committee members voted to retain the charter's existing four-vote requirement for land-use/zoning changes.
The Town of Loxahatchee Groves charter review committee voted 10–2 to recommend removing the charter’s supermajority requirement for the removal of charter officers, changing the threshold to a simple majority of the council.
Committee members debated several supermajority provisions in the charter. The committee kept the existing requirement calling for four affirmative council votes to change future land-use or zoning designations, with members…
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