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Councilwoman Winton: absent colleagues denied voters a say by missing special meeting
Summary
Councilwoman Winton said three absent council members prevented a ballot proposal from reaching voters and apologized to residents for the lost opportunity; the meeting adjourned without action.
Councilwoman Winton criticized fellow council members after the body failed to reach a quorum and thus could not act on a special-agenda item. "You will not get a say because 3 members chose your election of duty instead of doing their job," she said, urging residents to return at the next meeting to raise the issue again.
Winton said she had proposed putting the question to voters and described the postponement as erroneous; she called the inability to act shameful and apologized to residents who attended the special meeting hoping to be heard. The meeting adjourned at 6:13 p.m. A transcript note records inconsistent spelling for Winton's name when the motion to adjourn was announced (the second is recorded as 'Witten' elsewhere in the record).
