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Votes at a glance: charter drafting session Aug. 29
Summary
A roundup of procedural votes the commission took Aug. 29: approval of Office of Legislative Services language, deputy city attorney classification, annual ethics training, transitional ethics membership, moving chief-hiring language to civil service, and deletion of obsolete land-use department sections.
At its Aug. 29 session the Bridgeport Charter Revision Commission recorded several procedural and drafting votes. Below is a concise list of formal outcomes captured during the meeting. Where specific tallies or mover/second names were not recorded in the transcript, the commission minutes mark the motion as passed and directed staff to finalize drafting.
Votes recorded during the meeting
- Office of Legislative Services (section placement and director appointment/removal language): Motion to adopt language (place under section five) — passed. The proposal included a four-year director term and a two-thirds appointment and a two-thirds removal threshold for the director. (See: Office of Legislative Services draft.)
- Law Department (deputy city attorney classification): Motion to accept revised language specifying the deputy "shall serve at the pleasure of the city attorney" and that the deputy will be in the unclassified service — passed.
- Office of Municipal Ethics (staffing and training): Motion to approve staffing edits and to add language requiring annual ethics training for staff — passed.
- Ethics commission transitional membership: Motion adopting language that "all existing members shall constitute the new ethics commission until the appointment of new members" — passed. Commissioners said this is intended to prevent a lapse in vetting and clearance processes while the new commission is assembled.
- Move police and fire chief hiring provisions into civil service chapter: Motion to copy hiring/testing language for police and fire chiefs from their departments into civil service (create new subsections) — passed.
- Delete obsolete Department of Land Use, Construction and Review sections and move training and planning/zoning provisions to boards-and-commissions/planning sections: Motion to remove the obsolete department text and reassign relevant provisions — passed.
Notes: The transcript contains many recorded "I" votes but often does not report full tallies or named mover/second for every motion; staff were directed to produce redlines and final text for formal approval in follow-up meetings.
