North College Hill committee weighs which charter changes to send to voters

Members of the North College Hill Rules and Public Policy Committee spent the meeting deciding which recommendations from the Charter Review Commission to place on a city ballot and how to handle the drafting, timing and costs of that effort.

The question matters because several of the commission's recommendations would change the city's written charter and could have budgetary or administrative effects if approved by voters. Committee members noted a potential financial impact from renaming the city's finance manager to finance director, and raised procedural issues that must be resolved before ballot language is finalized.

Committee member Latonya Chichester opened the discussion by asking members to confirm whether the commission had strongly championed any particular change and to make sure the group knew the steps required to put charter amendments before voters. Chichester said she planned to send current meeting minutes to committee members so they could approve and post them in advance of the transition to the next committee chair.

Members agreed to ask the city's law director, Bill Deters, to draft the ballot language for…