Editor,

I have thought about both sides of this issue, and believe the San Mateo City Council should delay a mayor appointment until the fifth member is seated.

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Tafhdyd
Tafhdyd

Good morning C. Gillet,

Thanks for your letter to the Editor today. You indicated that the City Charter should be followed in the Mayoral selection and I agree. If the charter is not followed I believe it would not be the first time.

If memory serves me correct, and I won't bet my house on it, the city did not follow the charter back in the eighties when they added Martin Luther King day as a holiday. At the time the charter indicated that the city would enact any day designated as a holiday by the Federal Government. During negotiations with the city and the workers union the city declined to make it a holiday and instead wanted and succeeded in trading and an existing holiday on the city calendar, Columbus Day, for MLK day rather than follow the charter and make it a holiday.

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