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Council member urges caution on frequent charter reviews, cites cost of mayoral primary
Summary
Council Member Schnetzer told the Charter Review Commission there is no clear evidence one form of local government outperforms another and recommended reconsidering the automatic five-year commission requirement; he cited a $300,000 cost tied to a recent mayoral primary as an example of unexpected expense from charter changes.
Council Member Schnetzer, speaking at the Gahanna Charter Review Commission meeting on March 26, said his experience in municipal finance and local government leads him to recommend restraint in how often the city opens its charter for amendment.
"There is frankly no objective conclusive evidence that form of governance yields any measurable difference in community success or financial performance," Schnetzer said, arguing the city’s current strong-mayor structure and accompanying…
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