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Woodland Park council reactivates Charter Review Committee, names members and sets one-year timeline
Summary
The City Council voted to reactivate the Charter Review Committee by adopting Resolution No. 929 (Series 2025), agreeing to two council liaisons and appointing three citizen members; the committee will have legal and clerical support and must finish within a year.
The Woodland Park City Council on Jan. 2 reactivated the city's Charter Review Committee and appointed three citizen members to join two council liaisons on the panel.
Councilmember Carol Harvey presented background on the charter and on the need to begin work roughly a year before the next general election, saying the charter "should not be easily amended" and noting that municipal home-rule authority (referred to in the meeting as Article 20 of the state constitution) is the basis for the document.
The council unanimously adopted Resolution No. 929 (Series 2025), which reactivates the advisory Charter Review Committee originally established in 2000 and directs the city to advertise for and appoint two to four citizen members in addition to two council members, the city clerk, the city manager and the city attorney. Suzanne Leclair, city clerk, summarized the resolution for the record and said the resolution requires committee members to be at least 18 years old, residents of Woodland Park for at least one year and to serve…
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