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Committee debates raising recall‑petition signature threshold; city attorney to draft amendments
Summary
Supervisors discussed a first‑draft charter amendment to raise the signature threshold for recall petitions from 10% to 20% of registered voters; questions focused on whether to set a fixed percent or defer to state law’s sliding scale. The committee directed the city attorney to prepare revisions for next week.
The Rules Committee considered a first-draft charter amendment proposing to raise the number of signatures required to qualify a recall petition for a member of the Board of Supervisors from 10% to 20% of registered voters in a district.
Supervisor McGoldrick, who introduced the item, said a…
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