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Charter Review Committee to anonymize council proposals, appoints member to collate submissions and sets review schedule
Summary
The Porterville Charter Review Committee agreed July 3 to anonymize roughly 30 council-submitted charter amendment proposals, asked a committee member to collate them for review and set a timetable for returning prioritized items to the council for direction.
The Porterville Charter Review Committee agreed at its July 3 meeting to consolidate and anonymize proposed charter amendments submitted by city council members and to return the consolidated list to the council for prioritization.
Greg Shelton, chair of the Charter Review Committee, said the panel received dozens of suggested charter changes and that the committee’s role would be to “write word by word what are your good recommendations and give it right back to them,” preserving the council members’ original wording for transparency. “We're not gonna be accused of changing anything,” Shelton said.
Committee members discussed the…
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