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Findlay City committee advances draft rules allowing incoming president to form organization committee before first meeting
Summary
At a Jan. 29 Findlay City rules committee meeting, members reviewed a draft rewrite that would let an incoming council president appoint an organization committee to prepare committee nominations before the first formal council meeting, set odd-numbered committee-size limits (3 or 5), and move public communications earlier on agendas. The committee agreed to circulate a draft for the Feb. 17 council packet.
Findlay City — Members of a rules committee on Jan. 29 reviewed a proposed overhaul of council rules designed to streamline how committee assignments are made after an election and to reduce duplicated or conflicting wording in the code.
The draft under review would authorize the incoming council president to assemble an organization committee that prepares nominations for committee seats in advance of the council’s first formal meeting; those nominations would still require a council vote at the first meeting to take effect. Committee members debated language changes intended to remove redundancy, replacing several mandatory "shall" provisions with softer "should" language where state law already requires an action.
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