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Ithaca steering committee compiles housekeeping charter amendments for March 19 meeting
Summary
The Ithaca City Charter Commission steering committee agreed to bundle several technical and administrative changes into Resolution No. 3—to be considered at the March 19 general meeting—including simplifying department-head searches, merging city attorney/prosecutor provisions, updating Article 4 borrowing rules to match state law, moving sick-leave rules out of the charter, and adding a supremacy clause. The city attorney will draft amendment language.
The Ithaca City Charter Commission steering committee on Thursday voted to compile a set of administrative and cleanup amendments into a single measure, Resolution No. 3, to be considered by the full commission at its March 19 meeting.
Chair (speaker 2) said the steering committee will "compile these amendments into a single resolution" and proceed at the commission meeting "by voting by paragraph," so each proposed change can be discussed and decided individually before the resolution is approved as a whole.
Clyde Letterman, who summarized the working-group work, said the groups have prepared material for a resolution that the city attorney's office will draft into formal amendment language and report back. "These amendments will ask the city attorney to draft proposed amendments or report back," Letterman said, noting the edits will be considered one by one…
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