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Rules Committee continues Sunshine Ordinance Task Force appointments amid questions about referrals and disability representation
Summary
The committee paused appointments to the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force to allow follow-up on whether applicants or current members meet an ordinance requirement that at least one member be physically disabled and amid disagreement about how many referrals the task force has sent to the Ethics Commission.
The Rules Committee opened a hearing on two appointments to the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force but chose to continue the item to its next meeting to allow additional outreach and a sensitive check on an ordinance requirement that at least one task-force member be physically handicapped.
Clerks said two seats were open with four applicants. An ethics commission representative (recorded variously in the transcript as John St. Croix and later speaking as John Sankara) told the committee he did not intend to support or oppose nominees but corrected a prior statement in the room, saying "In its history, the task force has made 14 referrals to the ethics commission. 1 has been…
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