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Council declines to add Rogue Valley Transit District levy endorsement as emergency item; public commenter voices disappointment
Summary
Council President Andrea Thompson asked whether the Rogue Valley Transit District's request for a Council endorsement of a levy should be added as an Emergency Agenda Item; the Council declined to add it. Public commenter Tonia Morrow told the Council she regretted not sharing information sooner and expressed disappointment the Council would not add the item.
At the March 17 meeting, Council President Andrea Thompson raised a request from the Rogue Valley Transit District (RVTD) asking the Council to endorse a levy that will appear on an upcoming ballot and asked whether the Council wanted to add that request as an Emergency Agenda Item. The Council declined to add the item to the emergency agenda; no motion or formal vote to endorse the levy is recorded in the transcript.
During the public comment period, Tonia Morrow apologized for not providing information to the Council earlier and said she was disappointed the Council did not add her item as an emergency agenda item so the Council could publicly show support for the RVTD levy request. The transcript does not record further Council discussion or a formal response to her comments.
The transcript records the request for an endorsement and the Council’s decision not to consider it as an emergency item; it does not record any endorsing motion, counsel direction to staff to take a position, or a scheduled follow-up on RVTD’s request.
