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Council rejects directive to draft charter amendment allowing clerk to cast deciding vote on vacancies
Summary
After extended debate about separation of duties and safeguards against stalemate, Taylor City Council voted down a motion directing counsel to draft ballot language that would allow an elected official (proposed: the clerk) to cast a deciding vote to fill council vacancies.
Taylor City Council rejected a motion to direct corporate counsel to draft ballot language that would amend Charter section 4.5 to allow another elected official to cast a deciding vote to fill council vacancies.
Supporters of the proposed drafting said the narrowly written change was intended to prevent a repeat of an extended stalemate that left a council seat unfilled, pointing to past delays and saying a limited, conditional…
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