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Kent council tables Sustainability Commission bylaws after members and residents raise process concerns
Summary
Council sent draft Sustainability Commission bylaws back to committee after commissioners and residents said the document was an unfinished draft that hadn’t been reviewed by the full commission. The city manager clarified the draft does not dissolve the commission and the city remains committed to its work.
Kent City Council voted to table action on the draft bylaws for the Sustainability Commission and send the matter to committee for further review after commission members and residents raised concerns that the version presented to council was incomplete.
The decision followed a sustained period of public comment and council discussion. Tracy Wallach, who asked council to delay action, said the draft presented Dec. 3 "was work product, just a draft" and "had not been reviewed nor voted on by the full commission membership." Judy Nelson, a member of the commission’s ad hoc rewrite group, told council the document before them was…
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