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Special ballot measure won’t reach voters after council fails to achieve quorum
Summary
A special agenda item that needed to be forwarded to the county clerk by the following day will not go to the November ballot after the council failed to reach a quorum and adjourned, council leaders said.
Chairman Geist said the council lacked a quorum and could not take up a special-agenda item that needed to be forwarded to the county clerk by the following day to be placed on the November ballot. "It can be forwarded to the county clerk by tomorrow to be placed on the November ballot," he said, explaining the deadline.
Geist told the meeting he had not been present at last Wednesday’s meeting because his daughter is hospitalized and recently underwent a T‑cell transplant; he said that is why he was wearing a mask. With only three members present at 6:10 p.m., he said the council could not conduct official business and would stand at ease to allow late arrivals, then ultimately adjourned when a quorum did not appear. A motion to adjourn was made after a brief statement by Councilwoman Winton and the meeting ended at 6:13 p.m. The transcript records the motion as carried; the vote tally is not specified in the record.
