Council eliminates meeting mandate

Saturday, January 20, 2018

During Tuesday’s Blytheville City Council meeting the council passed a seemingly routine ordinance concerning “rules of order and procedure” for how they would operate in 2018. While the council must adopt rules every year, this year’s ordinance removed a portion of existing law that required that council members attend, at minimum, four meetings a month to receive full pay for that month. Councilwoman Barbara Brothers was the only member to vote against the ordinance and Councilman John Musgraves was absent.

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