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Committee tables broad rules and charter amendments after solicitor review requested
Summary
The committee reviewed a wide rewrite of council rules and proposals to change voting thresholds (including whether most ordinances should require two‑thirds or a simple majority), requested solicitor redrafting and deferred final action.
Committee members on May 6 considered a broad set of proposed changes to council rules and several charter amendments affecting voting thresholds and procedures.
Councilors Panitch and Talheimer submitted a draft rewrite intended to clarify when legal form should be requested, committee procedure, and notice requirements. A substantive debate followed about whether legal form should always…
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