Marion City Council cancels third meeting due to lack of quorum

For the third time this year, the Marion City Council had to cancel a scheduled meeting due to a lack of a quorum.

The council was set to meet at 6 p.m. Monday, but Councilman Jeff Nail was the only council member visible in the room during the zoom meeting. At 6:20 p.m., the mayor entered the council chambers and announced to the people live and on the zoom meeting that there was not a quorum so a council meeting cannot happen. Quorum is the minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid. There would need to be at least three of the five council members present.

Mayor Dexter Hinton addressed the situation. “The council that did not show stated they had unforeseen issues to come up. Cell services have been down all day. Those were the messages that just came through my phone when service came back online. The council is supported in their issues. We understand that things come about unexpectedly. We will convene at the first Monday in June.”

The council had a lack of quorum in the March 21 and April 18 meetings. The council is supposed to meet every first and third Monday of the month at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall.