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Staff: BDRs due Sept. 1; committee must route proposals through council before submission
Summary
Government affairs staff told the committee that bill-draft requests (BDRs) are due by Sept. 1 and any committee proposal must go to city council for approval before it can be drafted and submitted; members discussed whether meeting earlier could let them meet the deadline.
Zach Bucher, the government's affairs director, told members that BDRs are due to the state by September 1 and that committee suggestions must be approved by city council before drafting. "BDRs are due to the state by September 1," he said.
Bucher explained there are only two city council meetings before the deadline and described the timeline for drafting and redrafting a BDR and presenting it to council. Several members recalled the committee was told at its first meeting that it was already too late to submit a BDR for the current legislative session; the committee discussed using earlier preparatory meetings and outreach to legislators or lobbyists to increase chances of advancing narrowly scoped changes without prompting broader charter overhaul.
