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Englewood City Council denies protest over charter amendment ballot-title process
Summary
At a Sept. 4 special meeting, Englewood City Council voted to deny a protest filed by a registered elector challenging the process used to set the ballot title for a citizen-initiated home-rule charter amendment and directed staff to certify the title for the November ballot.
Englewood City Council on Thursday denied a protest challenging the process the council used to place a citizen-initiated charter amendment on the November ballot, and directed staff to certify the ballot title.
The protest, filed Sept. 3 by a registered elector identified in the hearing as Mr. Kaplan, argued the council should have set the ballot title by ordinance rather than by resolution. Deputy City Attorney Victoria McDermott told the council the protest did not challenge the title wording but the legislative vehicle used to set it and that state law and the city’s timeline made the resolution lawful and necessary.
McDermott told the council the petition to place the charter amendment on the ballot had been…
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