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Charter review panel urges council to adopt cleanup edits, send substantive changes to voters
Summary
At a June 19 meeting, the White House Charter Review Commission recommended that the city council adopt non‑substantive, organizational edits to the charter and consider placing substantive amendments before voters; the group discussed timelines for an election and public information outreach.
The White House Charter Review Commission on June 19 recommended that the city council adopt non‑substantive, organizational edits to the city charter and consider placing substantive amendments on a future ballot, the commission said during its meeting.
The recommendation, moved and seconded during the meeting, asked the council to adopt changes that remove duplication and clarify references to state law and to send only the substantive charter changes to voters for approval. The motion was made and seconded but the transcript does not record a formal roll‑call vote.
The commission's work is intended to make the charter easier to read and to separate routine administrative details that can be put in the city's code of ordinances from provisions that require voter approval, a presenter identified as Gary told the commission. "We just don't need to say it three times. We need to say it once," Gary said, explaining the goal of reorganizing related paragraphs and shortening repeated language.
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