The controversy earlier this summer over newly-elected Nevada City Councilmember Reinette Senum appears to have died down…or has it? Councilmember Duane Strawser says the council has agreed not to comment further until it’s addressed at an upcoming meeting…

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Election law states that no elected official can face a recall until after having been on the job for at least 90 days. Senum was sworn in on July 6th. Strawser says there have been no public comments about her since a special meeting on July 13th, when numerous residents and local merchants urged her to resign, over highly-critical comments about law-enforcement shooting incidents posted on her Facebook site. But he says that doesn’t necessarily mean the matter is closed…

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Strawser was the only councilmember unable to attend the July special meeting. But a written statement was read that night that was highly critical of Senum, including a request that she resign. The city cannot force her to resign, because she is an elected official. A Nevada County sheriff’s deputy had created an online petition supporting Senum’s ouster, a couple of days after that meeting, that had over 26-hundred signatures.