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Article: Manhattan Beach City Council sets curfew for meetings
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- Daily Breeze
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- April 17, 2008
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It's 10:30 p.m.: Do you know where your Manhattan Beach City
Council members are?
Under a resolution passed this week, they should be headed home -
at least on the first and third Tuesday nights of the month.
The loquacious panel on Tuesday unanimously imposed a curfew on
its twice-monthly meetings, deciding that any general business items
or public hearings not brought up by 10:30 p.m. will be rolled to
the next session.
A four-fifths majority vote could extend discussion later than
the deadline, they also decided.
"The purpose of this resolution is so we're not making decisions
at midnight, 1 o'clock in the morning," Mayor Jim Aldinger said.
And between packed agendas, lengthy ...