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Sugar Land council reviews Charter Review Commission recommendations; to place municipal court-judge term extension on May 2025 ballot
Summary
Council reviewed recommendations from the 2023–2024 Charter Review Commission. The council directed staff to place a proposal to extend municipal court judges’ terms from two to four years on the May 2025 ballot; other suggested changes were treated as administrative or not adopted.
City Attorney Meredith Reedy reviewed recommendations from the 2023–2024 Charter Review Commission and asked the council whether to place several proposed charter amendments on the May 2025 ballot.
Reedy said the commission met six times and submitted five recommendations. Those included reducing the maximum franchise length from 50 to 25 years, removing "taxicab and bus" from a transportation list (administrative cleanup), clarifying the "resign to run" provision, and changing municipal court judge and associate judge terms…
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