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Grove City council continues charter review, narrows mayor selection to council choice

Grove City City Council · August 4, 2025
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At an Aug. 4 workshop, Grove City council members worked through a draft council–city manager charter and generally favored selecting a mayor from among council members (term length to be decided), while asking staff to return a redlined draft with decision points including appointment/confirmation of legal and finance directors.

Grove City’s council spent the Aug. 4 caucus meeting continuing a review of proposed charter language as the city considers shifting to a council–city manager plan of government.

Council President Crystal Haupt opened the session by asking council and staff to focus on producing a draft the members could act on, and to adopt the commonly used term “council–city manager plan” in the charter draft, rather than the shorter label “city manager form of government.” “We are working under the premise to get through a draft,” Haupt said.

City Attorney Steven Smith told the group that the phraseology matters to public…

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