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Council schedules pretrial hearing in removal petition and accepts articles of impeachment
Summary
After extended public comment, the City Council adopted rules for a removal process, scheduled a May 19 pretrial hearing (motions/witness lists due five days prior), and accepted petitioners' articles of impeachment to move the charter process forward.
The City Council on a majority vote moved paperwork in a petition to remove the mayor forward, adopting procedural rules based on a 1987 precedent and setting a May 19 pretrial hearing. The council also accepted the petitioners' articles of impeachment for formal inclusion in the record.
Mayor Pro Tem and council staff said the action is procedural and does not itself remove the mayor. "This is part of the process — it's not a finding of guilt or innocence," the presiding official told council…
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