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Committee backs motion to remove monthly mayor's 'question time' from Board agenda
Summary
The Rules Committee approved forwarding a motion to delete the monthly 'question time' item—installed by a charter amendment initiative—from the Board agenda after supervisors said voters rejected the mandate and the mayor opposed mandatory monthly appearances.
The Rules Committee voted to send to the full Board a motion to amend the board’s rules of order to remove the monthly "question time" item that had been placed on the agenda under a charter amendment proposal.
A supervisor explained the motion as a procedural cleanup after voters defeated the charter amendment that would have required the mayor to appear monthly; "Now that the voters have told us that this is not something that they believe, the mayor should be mandated to do," the supervisor said in explaining the motion.
Committee members discussed leaving the question to the full Board; there were no extended public comments on this item and the committee agreed to forward the cleanup motion to the Board without objection.
Next steps: the motion will be considered by the full Board as a rules-change housekeeping measure.
