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Granite County study commission updates tentative report to add ballot certificates; discusses changing form and term lengths
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The Granite County study commission voted to add required certificates and ballot language to its tentative report as it debates asking voters to adopt a commission form of government and to shorten commissioner terms from six to four years; commissioners also debated whether to include a separate nonpartisan-election question.
The Granite County study commission voted to update its tentative report to include the certificates and ballot language needed to place proposed changes before voters, commissioners said at a public hearing.
Dan Clark, the director of the Local Government Center, told the commission that because the elected county officials form was codified in state law, ‘‘to change anything about the plan of government … you would need to ask the voters to shift from elected county officials form and adopt the commission form’’ and then approve any proposed changes to the plan (for example, moving from six-year to four-year terms). Clark said that two questions on the ballot must pass for a change to take effect: a question approving the alternative form of government and a separate question approving the proposed plan tied to that form.
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