Council discusses setting automatic-primary thresholds, cites cost and turnout concerns
Councilors discussed an ordinance to set when local primaries occur—examining thresholds (four or more mayoral candidates; double-plus-one for council seats), the city’s financial responsibility for February primaries, and adding vacancy-filling language; staff will draft ordinance language and return to the council.
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Council members spent a portion of the meeting reviewing options for a local ordinance that would set automatic spring-primary thresholds and clarify procedures for filling council vacancies when a member becomes mayor.
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