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The Portsmouth City Council is close to choosing a firm that will help vet and select a new city manager. But the timeline for the selection process means the city could go a full year without a permanent city manager in place.
Portsmouth City Council members voted 4-2 this week to require a majority vote in order to remove a council member from a meeting.
PORTSMOUTH — The mayor will no longer have the sole discretion to remove a colleague from a City Council meeting for disorderly conduct. Portsmouth City Council voted Tuesday to amend the council’s rules of order and procedure regarding decorum during meetings and will now require a majority vote to eject a council member from a public meeting. The change comes after Council member De’Andre ...
The change in rules comes after the removal of Council member De'Andre Barnes at several meetings over the last few months and previous discussion of aligning the city council's rules more closely with Robert's Rules of Order, which governs parliamentarian procedure.
SAFStor Real Estate Co. has tried since 2021 to gain the green light to place a three-story, 103,350-square-foot storage facility with nearly 800 storage units at 0 Effingham St. Due to past lead contamination, it’s an Environmental Protection Agency superfund site, which restricts how the land can be used.