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Fall River council receives special charter review report, debates cooling-off rules and ballot timing
Summary
The special charter review committee presented recommended changes including recall procedure revisions, a reduced signature threshold for ballot access and removal of a contested 'cooling-off' prohibition; councilors discussed Attorney General review and whether to wait until 2027 for a ballot placement.
The Fall River City Council on Nov. 25 received the report of the special charter review committee and voted to file the committee’s recommendations with the city clerk and post them on the city website. The committee presented suggested edits intended to bring the charter into closer alignment with state law and to reduce future litigation risks.
Bridal Brown, chair of the special charter review committee, said the group sought to make the charter more user-friendly and to address provisions previously subject to court challenge. "We changed it to 2 elections, and we changed the language," Brown said, describing amendments to the recall process so there would be an initial ballot question on removal…
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