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Charter review committee recommends replacing blanket attorney endorsement requirement with ordinance-based thresholds
Summary
Committee members agreed the charter's current requirement that the town attorney "approve and endorse all contracts" is impractical. They directed counsel to prepare proposed charter and ordinance language so specified contract categories and dollar thresholds — rather than a literal reading of "all contracts" — would require attorney review.
Members of the Town of Loxahatchee Groves charter review committee debated at length whether the charter should continue to require the town attorney to "approve and endorse all contracts, bonds, and other instruments" and reached consensus that the provision should be changed to reference a council-adopted ordinance that sets materiality thresholds and categories of agreements for attorney review.
Town attorney Jeff Kurtz read the current charter language aloud and explained the practical problem: "approve all contracts, bonds,…
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