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Council split over FAIR memo process for adding agenda items
Summary
Council members debated whether the FAIR memo (a 2024 policy for placing items on the agenda) provides useful guardrails or unduly restricts an individual councilmember’s ability to bring items for discussion.
Gilroy — Council members spent a substantial portion of the study session debating how items should be added to council agendas under the city’s FAIR memo process.
Council member Kelly Ramirez argued that elected officials should retain the ability to place resident‑raised matters on the agenda for discussion: “I think that as elected officials, it is our job when a resident brings concern forth…that we should be able to bring that forth…
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