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Staff outlines priorities for Santa Clara charter rewrite: definitions, residency timing and civil service updates
Summary
City staff told the Charter Review Committee they plan to prioritize clearer defined terms, clarify the 30‑day residency rule for candidates, update ordinance-publication language, and align civil service sections with current practice while benchmarking other charter cities.
City staff presented a detailed roadmap for a comprehensive charter review at the Charter Review Committee meeting on Nov. 19, urging consistent drafting conventions, an expanded index of defined terms and targeted updates to several substantive sections of the Santa Clara Charter.
Staff said key topics for early review include (1) clarifying the 30‑day residency requirement in section 600 that determines candidate eligibility timing, (2) modernizing ordinance-adoption and publication language in sections 805–815, (3) reviewing Article 3 succession language that the staff described as largely historical and potentially surplus, and (4) revising civil service provisions that the staff said appear out of alignment with current city practice and state law. ‘‘There was…
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