Council receives governance training stressing mayor and council roles, appointments and code codification
The council reviewed AIC governance materials and ICRMP training options covering mayoral duties, council authority limits, appointment/removal procedures, and distinctions between ordinances and resolutions; staff to provide AIC access and proceed with codification coordination.
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The council reviewed a governance training slideshow based on AIC materials that emphasized the division of duties between the mayor and the council, legal limits on individual councilmember actions, and the appointment-confirmation framework. Training items highlighted mayoral duties—personnel decisions, appointing officers (subject to council confirmation), tie-breaking votes—and council authority as a body to set policy, adopt ordinances and resolutions, and approve budgets and expenditures.
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