2025-2026 Grand Jury Report - Whether a Vacancy has Occurred on the Yreka City Council

The jury examines council attendance, excused absences, a canceled regular meeting and a retroactive excuse. It concludes a vacancy occurred and recommends declaring/filling it, a written absence policy and conditional independent legal advice. Those are disputed jury conclusions, not a court ruling: the narrative expressly makes no determination of the retroactive excuse’s civil-law validity. Three findings and three recommendations appear on physical PDF page 6; page 7 distinguishes Council and City Manager response scope. The supplied August 18 special-meeting packet contains a proposed response and the minutes record approval substantially in the form presented. No separately executed or filed response was supplied; the packet remains supporting material and receives no final-response audit. Entire unchanged eight-page original, including statutory and timeline appendices.