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Glenwood Springs council orders procurement threshold update, defers bigger charter changes
Summary
After months of review, the council voted to advance a procurement-threshold update and grouped technical edits to the city charter toward a future ballot, while rejecting a last-minute amendment to change the vacancy-replacement process.
Mayor Martha Dame and councilors spent more than an hour Wednesday questioning members of the Charter Commission and staff before moving forward with targeted changes to the city charter.
Charlie Willman, who chaired the citizen commission that reviewed the charter, told the council the group worked section by section to modernize language and fix inconsistencies in a charter that has not been substantially updated since the 1960s. The commission highlighted several topics for possible voter consideration, including whether to elect the mayor, whether to move municipal…
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