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Glendale committee weighs keeping city clerk and treasurer elected; staff asked to return with compensation and qualification options
Summary
After presentations from staff and elected officers, the committee discussed whether to convert the city clerk and treasurer to appointed posts. Most members expressed a current preference to keep the offices elected but asked staff to provide options on salary-setting, charter guardrails and possible qualification language.
The Charter Review Committee spent the second half of its Feb. 5 meeting examining whether Glendale’s city clerk and city treasurer should remain elected offices or become appointed positions.
City staff summarized current duties: the city clerk administers elections, keeps permanent records of ordinances and resolutions, manages agendas and public‑records responses; the city treasurer handles receipts and disbursements, bank relationships, investment portfolio management and trustee duties for bonds. Mr. Garcia told the committee voters have rejected prior efforts to make the offices appointed (1943, 1972, 1979 and 2013 were cited)…
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