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Committee flags roll-call voting rule, election qualifying timeline and city-manager provisions for follow-up
Summary
Members raised a handful of procedural items for future meetings: the charter—s roll-call vote requirement, the timing of candidate qualifying windows after withdrawals, and conflicting hiring/firing provisions for the city manager; staff will research and return recommendations.
Committee members on Thursday identified three categories of procedural issues they want staff to research and bring back at a future meeting: the charter—s automatic roll-call vote requirement, the election qualifying windows that can trigger off-cycle elections after candidate withdrawals, and charter language governing the hiring and removal of the city manager.
Dominic Rysampierre and others questioned a charter subsection that reads, when ordinances or resolutions are to be voted on, the clerk shall call the roll and each member…
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