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Council committees review broad charter amendments including elections, department qualifications and parks governance
Summary
Members of the Charter Review Commission and Baberton City Council debated proposed charter amendments covering nonpartisan elections, council size and timing, qualifications for department heads, parks commission powers and stormwater authority during committee hearings May 12.
Baberton City Council committees spent the evening reviewing a package of proposed charter amendments submitted by the Charter Review Commission that would change how local elections are run, adjust the composition of council, add minimum qualifications for several department heads and reorganize the Parks and Recreation Commission.
The charter package includes a proposal to move the city to nonpartisan municipal elections and language updating candidate signature thresholds, a recommendation to reduce elected ward councilmembers (from six to four, with a president) and several new qualifying requirements for appointed or elected department positions, including the director of public service, the finance director and the law director.
“I'm asking everybody to please remain respectful because I know we might have some passionate views on things,” Charter Review Commission chair Angela…
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