Committee accepts public-hearings summary as information; public themes include accountability and equity

Committee member Miss Robinson presented a summary of the public hearings and asked the committee to accept it as information. The summary reported that residents prioritized accountability, representation, transparency, and equitable infrastructure investment; it also said the public strongly favored replacing the current administrator role with a professional city manager and expressed near-unanimous opposition to a strong-mayor model.

Miss Robinson read the report aloud and said the hearings surfaced repeated themes: concerns about department head responsiveness and 311 calls, a desire for district-based public meetings, requests for improved outreach and plain-language charter materials, and calls for ethics oversight and attendance policies. Committee members asked clarifying questions about whether the “two-thirds” supermajority requests cited in the summary referred to the charter-review committee or the government commission; Robinson said the comments were mostly directed at the commission’s voting rules.

A motion to accept the public-hearings summary as information was made, seconded, and called for a vote. The motion carried.

Ending: Committee members took the summary as informational and requested that the report and raw survey data be provided to committee members as part of continuing outreach and analysis work.