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Ione council opens review of protocol manual after members press for enforcement and training
Summary
Council members pressed to update and enforce the city's protocol manual and Rosenberg's Rules of Order, citing past departures from required agenda procedures, inconsistent agenda packet timing and concerns about decorum and email monitoring. Council directed members and staff to review the manual and return with proposed changes.
The Ione City Council devoted a lengthy portion of its meeting to reviewing its protocol manual and the application of Rosenberg's Rules of Order after multiple council members said the city had not consistently followed its own procedures.
Councilmember Atland (speaker in the record) led the critique, reading sections of the protocol manual that require a written outline for items placed on the agenda, a concise statement of action requested and a statement of…
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