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Stow City Charter Review Commission outlines proposed changes to succession, notice and timeline at town hall
Summary
At a town-hall presentation, the Stow City Charter Review Commission described draft charter changes including clearer acting-official succession, a reduced public-posting minimum with social-media notice, an earlier ballot timeline deadline and proposed provisions for acting department directors; no formal votes were taken.
Dennis Campbell, chair of the Charter Review Commission, opened a town-hall meeting to describe the commission’s process and a series of draft charter changes the panel has discussed, emphasizing the group has not yet voted on any proposals or sent them to City Council.
The commission is proposing clarifications to succession language for an acting mayor, a reduction in the minimum number of physical public-posting locations from six to three coupled with a requirement to post notices on the city’s social media platforms, an earlier internal deadline for sending charter amendments to council (moving materials from Aug. 1 to July 1), and explicit language allowing appointment of acting directors for the finance and law departments during periods of incapacity. Commissioners also discussed asking Council to convene a separate commission to study wards and redistricting.
“Nobody on this commission can change the charter — we only make recommendations that, if sent to…
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