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Council recesses to executive session; mayor notes abstentions are not permitted by charter
Summary
After debate and a vote, the council recessed to executive session to discuss land, legal and personnel matters; on return the mayor said an abstention had been attempted but the city charter does not permit abstentions and asked members who voted no to show hands so the clerk could record them.
Following discussion of the referendum, the council voted to go into executive session to discuss land, legal and personnel issues. The council recessed and later returned to open session.
After the executive session, the mayor noted that a call for abstention had occurred during the vote; he said the city charter does not permit abstentions and asked members who had voted "no" to show their hands so the clerk could record them. The clerk confirmed the recording of those hands in the public minutes. The transcript does not include a detailed roll-call tally of the original referendum motion in the public segments provided.
