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Sponsor withdraws ordinance after debate over council office roles and staff concerns
Summary
Miss Ellis introduced BL 20261355 to clarify the Metropolitan Council office chain of command. A substitute from Miss Dooms would have kept the status quo while the executive committee continued rulemaking; after extended debate about reporting lines, staff conditions and an alleged age-based remark in an executive-committee discussion, Miss Ellis withdrew the ordinance.
Miss Ellis sponsored BL 20261355, an ordinance amending section 2.04 0.03 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws to clarify the command structure of the Metropolitan Council office. She framed the ordinance as addressing the question of what check exists when "any individual elected official acts outside of the authority the metro charter gives them."
Miss Dooms moved a substitute that she said preserved the core protections in the original draft while allowing the executive committee to continue work on a longer-term structure. Miss Dooms described the substitute as maintaining the status quo…
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