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Board narrows language to increase agenda transparency and limit last-minute items; votes to adopt edits to agenda sections
Summary
After extended debate, the board removed two broad phrases that would have given the mayor unilateral authority to prepare or pull agenda items and adopted edits requiring clearer procedures and limiting late additions except for bona fide emergencies.
The board spent a sustained portion of the meeting debating who should finalize the commission agenda and how much unilateral authority to give the mayor. Jonathan Hayes, the city manager, described the current workflow: staff prepares a proposed agenda and the clerk finalizes materials; planning and quasi-judicial items follow their own routing. Hayes said the packet is now public about a week in advance in…
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