Perry says vote to rescind appointment failed
Mineral Daily News-Tribune
To the Editor:
This is an explanation to city residents how the city council failed in a 2-1 vote to rescind my appointment and I remain appointed.
Duty of Mayor Damon Tillman is set forth in City Charter, Section 10: THE MAYOR – In part: “The Mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the City, and he [shall], except as otherwise herein provided, [see that the laws and ordinances of the City are enforced]”; …”. (Shall, means mandatory and Lines and Brackets are for emphasis)
The number of votes necessary to adopt any motion, resolution or ordinance or pass any measure is a mandatory [3] yeas or affirmative votes. Any votes 2-1 or 2-3 will fail to pass any motion under City Charter, Section 8. COUNCIL.
Tribune Managing Editor
KEYSER - In an about-face from their Nov. 18 meeting, the Keyser City Council voted Wednesday to rescind their motion to appoint Curtis Perry to fill the vacant seat on the council.
Council member Jim Hannas, who had seconded Billy Meek’s motion to appoint Perry last month, made the motion to rescind, citing some information that had since come to their attention.
Referring to various letters Perry had published in the News Tribune criticizing the mayor and council, Hannas said he had seconded the motion last month because he felt “We might disagree, but we’d come up with an answer that would benefit the City of Keyser..
Tribune Managing Editor
KEYSER - The Keyser City Council will live-stream its meetings until further notice in order to comply with the state mandate keeping public meetings to ten people or less.
The meeting, which gets underway at 6 p.m. Wednesday, can be viewed live on the City of Keyser’s Facebook page. It will also be recorded and will therefore be available later on the page as well.
Those having any questions or concerns they would like brought up before the council may email them to finance@cityofkeyser.com.
Although the council was scheduled to hold the second reading of an ordinance raising the resale water rate charged to the New Creek Water Association by 94 cents per thousand gallons, according to the agenda released Monday evening, that will be rescheduled until representatives from Keyser can meet with the New Creek Water Association.