Sunnyvale Charter Review Committee assigns five charter topics to subcommittees, sets outreach and reporting deadlines

The Sunnyvale Charter Review Committee on June 5 assigned five charter topics requested by the City Council to existing subcommittees, set a June 30 meeting at 5:30 p.m. for next steps and directed subcommittees to submit PDF reports to staff one week before that meeting.

The assignments cover charter section 605 (compensation), section 606 (vacancies), section 611 (regular meetings), city manager powers and duties, and contracts/public works. Committee members and staff spent much of the meeting clarifying which subcommittee will handle each topic and discussing public engagement approaches and resource needs.

Committee members said the step is part of the committee’s work plan following direction from the City Council on June 3. The committee assigned compensation (Charter section 605) to Subcommittee 2 (Members Davis, Philly and We), vacancies (Charter section 606) and regular meetings (Charter section 611) to Subcommittee 1 (Members Neuswanger, Olofsson, Pine and Vickrey), and city manager powers and contracts/public works to Subcommittee 3 (Chair Larson, Vice Chair Wickham and Member Rubino). Staff recommended cancelling the June 26 meeting and tentatively scheduling the next full committee meeting for June 30 at 5:30 p.m.

Why it matters: the assignments set which smaller groups will research options, propose outreach and prepare materials that the full committee will consider before any recommendation to the City Council. Committee members and members of the public raised public outreach, Brown Act limitations on subcommittee communications and…