Emergency ordinance to be signed in West Union

Conditions within West Union town government are reaching an emergency stage. A meeting of the town council is called for 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon to sign a temporary ordinance that would “authorize the Council to temporarily suspend the normal operating procedures applicable to council meetings and to authorize county meeting attendance remotely.” This would, according to the proposed ordinance, allow the West Union Town Council “to act more quickly with respect to the health and safety needs of the community.” There’d be a sunset provision to the ordinance in the following language: “This temporary ordinance shall be terminated by the issuance of another ordinance expressly stating that it is terminated or extended, or it shall automatically expire on the 61st day after enactment of this ordinance, whichever date is earlier.”