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El Segundo council directs staff to start work exploring charter city conversion
Summary
After a lengthy discussion of trade‑offs, the council gave staff consensus to begin preparing documents and public hearings to explore changing El Segundo from a general law city to a charter city, a change that would require voter approval and further public review.
The El Segundo City Council gave staff direction to begin the process of studying whether the city should convert from a general law city to a charter city, a move that would require ballot approval and additional public hearings.
City Attorney (S11) told the council that charter cities draft their own rules and that any change would have to be placed before voters at a municipal election. He said the city’s next general municipal election is in November and estimated the county registrar fee to put a question on the ballot at roughly $2,000, plus additional legal…
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