Lancaster appointments flawed

For more than a decade, the Lancaster City Council has unknowingly been following the wrong procedures when appointing Planning Commission members, officials recently discovered. Karen Maeshiro in the Daily News.

Traditionally, commission members have been appointed by individual council members and then ratified by the council as a whole.

But newly elected Mayor R. Rex Parris discovered that state law actually requires the mayor to make the appointments and submit them to the council for ratification.