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Council reviews rules of procedure, debates remote participation and council-initiated actions; schedules options and moves to closed session
Summary
Council and staff reviewed the rules of procedure and code of conduct, debated limits on council-initiated actions, whether to align remote participation rules with state law or adopt a narrower travel/public-business exception, and discussed agenda-setting, resident engagement logistics and legislative advocacy processes. The meeting recessed into a closed executive session to consider a property purchase.
Administrator Zelens led a review of the council rules of procedure and code of conduct, telling members these documents set norms for meeting structure, staff support and governance.
Zelens framed the rules as tools that should be clear but flexible: "rules are made to be broken" in specific circumstances, he said, adding that a change can be approved by five members or temporarily suspended in a meeting when needed.
Council members spent most of the study-session debate on three procedural issues: council-initiated actions (CIAs) and "other business," remote participation under a revised state statute, and the process for legislative advocacy and letters of support.
On CIAs, several members said the process has sometimes…
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