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Forest Park council approves charter change narrowing individual council inquiry powers
Summary
Council approved an amendment to the city charter to remove language permitting individual council members to make inquiries of employees, keeping investigatory authority with the full governing body and requiring formal approval before investigations proceed; councilors raised concerns about confusing background text and corrected meeting-material errors before the vote.
The Forest Park Mayor and Council voted Nov. 17 to amend the city charter’s section on inquiries and investigations, deleting a sentence that staff and some councilors said had been interpreted to allow individual council members to unilaterally question employees.
Staff presented the amendment as preserving council investigatory authority while requiring that investigations be initiated only…
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