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REPORT - AMENDMENT TO COUNCIL MANUAL OF PROCEDURES AND PROTOCOLS REGARDING ABSENCES FROM MEETINGS
BACKGROUND: Rule I.F. of the City Council Manual of Procedures and Protocols provides that “[i]f a Councilmember is absent without Council permission from all regular City Council meetings for thirty (30) days consecutively from the last regular meeting he/she attends, his/her office becomes vacant and shall be filled as any other vacancy.”
When that rule was adopted in 1999, the City Council routinely held three regular Council meetings per month. Since mid-2022, however, City Council has generally held two regular meetings per month. As a result, there are times that if a Councilmember is absent from a single regular Council meeting, the Councilmember could be in violation of the 30-day rule in Rule I.F (“30-day meeting absence rule”) unless Council permission can be obtained before the 30th day.
Automatic forfeiture of an elected official’s office because of a single meeting abs...
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Code sections:
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15061(b)(3) - General Rule Exemption, 15378 - Not a Project
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