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Subcommittees report progress; procurement thresholds, vacancies and ethics debated
Summary
Subcommittees reported Feb. 14 on work across six groups: Group 2 reviewed council compensation, vacancy definitions and meeting frequency; Group 4 debated an ethics commission and limits on investigative authority; Group 6 addressed fiscal updates and procurement thresholds (current $1,000 threshold noted). Staff will take proposed civil service language to meet-and-confer and return with follow-up.
Several Charter Review Committee subcommittees reported substantive progress at the Feb. 14 meeting, identifying technical and policy issues staff will refine before returning to the full committee.
Group 2 (elections, council powers and meeting conduct) reviewed benchmarking on council compensation and discussed clarifying what the charter means by ‘salary’ versus ‘compensation.’ Staff noted the charter currently requires two meetings per month and the group discussed converting that requirement to an aggregate 24 meetings per year while retaining at least one meeting per month. Group 2 also raised that the charter lacks a clear definition of a vacancy and…
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