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Acting city manager urges charter edits to simplify appointments, discipline and public-works oversight
Summary
Acting City Manager Dominic Requio recommended specific charter revisions to streamline department-head searches (C-26), clarify discipline/removal (C-26.1), move Board of Public Works functions into department code, and adjust the annual financial-report deadline to allow more time for closing books.
Acting City Manager Dominic Requio gave the commission an operational view of how the charter affects day-to-day government and outlined three near-term priorities he said would improve city operations: simplifying appointment and search processes, clarifying discipline and removal rules, and removing or relocating detailed Board of Public Works provisions.
Requio said the current appointment and search rules (C-26) can be onerous and suggested shrinking search-committee size and allowing more flexible appointment processes. "I would say simplifying the department head search…
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