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Commissioner withdraws motion for group apology to VFW after debate
Summary
Commissioner Tim Morris asked the legislative committee to send an apology letter to the VFW over a prior in-chamber exchange; after discussion and objections from other commissioners the maker withdrew the motion and the second concurred, so no apology letter was issued.
Commissioner Tim Morris asked the legislative committee to send a group apology to a Veterans of Foreign Wars post for comments made at a prior meeting, saying the commission sometimes gets emotional and 'makes mistakes.' Other commissioners debated whether a group apology was appropriate, with some saying the mayor had handled the exchange at the time and that an individual commissioner could apologize instead.
Morris offered to withdraw the motion after discussion and did so; the second agreed, meaning the apology-letter proposal was not adopted. Several commissioners urged better decorum but stopped short of directing a formal, body-wide apology.
