Washington: Initiative to change city meetings to after-work hours

Fri, Jan 15 2010 — Source: Herald Net

A group of people who believe city leaders are shutting out the public by holding regular council meetings during working hours are campaigning to let voters decide when the Everett City Council should meet. Paul Donovan, one of the campaign organizers, said about 3,000 signatures are needed to get an initiative on the ballot that would re-establish all night meetings. He doesn’t think collecting them would be much of a problem.

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