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Committee moves to raise initiative petition threshold and ask attorney to draft language
Summary
The Everett Charter Review Committee voted to direct the city attorney to draft language raising the citizen initiative petition threshold to 10% of the votes cast for mayor at the last city general election and to delegate procedures to council; members also debated including a fiscal-impact statement requirement.
A majority of the Everett Charter Review Committee voted to direct the city attorney to draft revised language for Article 11.2 that would raise the petition threshold for citizen initiatives and clarify procedural rules.
City Attorney Mr. Rammerman told the committee the charter’s current two-tier petition system produces inconsistent outcomes and a particularly low 5% path to the ballot. “The biggest one is dealing with threshold…
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