City schedules special meeting after newspaper misses publication date
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Summary
City officials announced a special meeting to re-run an item after the city’s designated newspaper failed to publish a required notice on time; staff said the matter must return through counsel and be held as a special meeting, likely the week following the missed run.
City staff announced at a special meeting that a required public notice failed to run on its scheduled publication date, forcing the item to be re-published and the meeting to be rescheduled.
Speaker 1 told the council that although the city received an affidavit purportedly showing publication, the newspaper did not publish on the date required. “It’s the paper’s bad,” Speaker 1 said, adding that staff has re-placed the ad and that this is “the last time this can happen.” Staff must repeat the public-notice process and the agenda item must return through counsel as a special meeting.
Officials discussed scheduling constraints tied to statutory posting timelines. Speaker 1 said the special meeting will need to be held the following week on either Wednesday or Thursday to meet publication deadlines; scheduling conflicts narrowed the practical date to Thursday the 14th (as discussed between Speaker 1 and Speaker 2). Speaker 1 said the special meeting is expected to be brief and will include a hiring resolution; materials will be re-sent to council in order.
Speaker 2 opened the meeting with the announced time recorded in the transcript as “October 30th at 6:09 PM” and identified the venue in the transcript as the Holiday Building at “on 5 on 4th Street” (verbatim). The transcript does not specify the year for the Oct. 30 reference. The council then moved on to an executive-session announcement citing “chapter 551” and “551.071.”
No formal vote or final action on the republished item appears in the provided transcript; the discussion recorded here focused on logistics and ensuring legal posting requirements are met. The next procedural step noted in the transcript was to re-run the notice, route the item through counsel, and hold the special meeting as a single-item session.