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Rosenberg council narrows a package of charter changes for possible May 2026 ballot
Summary
Council members debated several proposed city charter amendments — including removing a mandatory comprehensive plan, limiting direct-report contracts to 12 months, and changing termination thresholds — and tentatively agreed to place multiple changes before voters for further legal review.
The Rosenberg City Council spent the bulk of its Dec. 16 meeting examining a suite of proposed charter amendments that council members may place on a May 2, 2026 ballot.
Mayor Benton led the discussion as council reviewed proposals submitted individually by members. Among the measures the council discussed were removing the charter requirement that the city maintain a mandatory comprehensive plan, limiting direct-report employment contracts to 12 months going forward, changing the vote threshold required to terminate certain direct reports, and repealing a petitioner letter-of-intent requirement for citizen initiatives.
“We're talking about removing an unfunded mandate,” Mayor Benton said when arguing for deleting the mandatory comprehensive-plan requirement from the charter. He said the current comprehensive plan had been…
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