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Ferguson supervisors debate agenda-submission rules; motion to retain current process passes
Summary
Supervisors debated whether to tighten or loosen board-member agenda submission procedures, including an explicitly allowed de minimis exception for late items; a motion to maintain existing procedures while using Robert's Rules where appropriate passed.
The Board of Supervisors spent a prolonged portion of its Feb. 3 meeting discussing how board members add items to future agendas. The debate centered on balancing predictable staff workload and Sunshine Act notice requirements against board members’ desire to place timely, de minimis matters on a meeting agenda.
Supervisor Matt Patterson argued for simplicity and for relying on Robert’s Rules of Order to allow the board…
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