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Council agrees to place Charter Review Committee proposals on November ballot, committee asks for last audit of language
Summary
The council voted to place proposed charter amendments from the Charter Review Committee on the November ballot, but the committee chair asked council to withhold one specific edit pending clarification and urged a final audit of the proposition language before certification.
The City Council voted to place proposed amendments from the Charter Review Committee on the November 2025 ballot after a committee representative summarized the group’s work and urged a final review of the draft propositions.
Committee chair Kara (last name not specified) said the committee met 10 times March through June and developed 22 proposed amendments (Propositions A–V). She said the panel addressed politically sensitive matters such as the mayor’s voting authority and council compensation, clarified term-limit language created during a transition from district-based to place-based council seats, and considered raising the recall petition threshold from 5% to 10% for certain offices.
The charter committee representative asked council to withhold 1 particular edit (c.1 paragraph 2 in the draft) pending clarification from the city attorney, saying the attorney’s earlier response contained an error relative to committee intent. The committee also requested that future charter-review processes include direct council representation on the review body and allow more time for the committee to reconvene and audit the final proposition language as a whole.
Council accepted the committee’s submission and voted to place the charter propositions on the ballot; the motion passed 6-0. Councilmembers and committee members discussed the need to ensure the final proposition text is accurate, noting the packet mailed to council after the agenda contained an updated version; the committee asked for one final meeting to audit language before the city makes the official ballot submittal. Staff said they would work with the city attorney and the committee to finalize the language in time for the required election notices.
Ending: Council authorized placement of the Committee’s proposed charter amendments on the November ballot but agreed to work with staff and the committee on a final audit of the proposition language before the city submits official election materials.
