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Council seeks changes to advisory‑body rules: staff to draft alternates policy and clarify nepotism and speaking rules
Summary
Council discussed updating rules for commissions and committees, directing staff to draft language to allow alternates, disfavor family appointments but allow waivers, clarify attendance/removal procedures and revise handbook language that limits commissioner speech when appearing before council.
The Cupertino City Council reviewed a staff report and city‑attorney presentation on potential updates to advisory‑body policies, including nepotism restrictions, vacancies and alternates, attendance rules, commissioner autonomy, and distinctions between committees and commissions.
City Attorney Floyd Andrews walked council through five focal areas drawn from the staff report: expanding nepotism restrictions, whether to appoint non‑voting alternates who can fill in when members are absent (and under what conditions…
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