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Agenda

Charter Commission

DATE: 1/14/2010
TIME: 5:30 PM
LOCATION: City Council Chambers
AGENDA

1. Call to Order and Review of Meeting. Chair Plumb (5:30 PM.)
2. Public comment on the items on the business agenda
3. Approval of the minutes from the December 14, 2009 meeting -- Action Item.
4. Announcements – Commissioners (5:50 PM)
5. Update on the Charter Commission’s budget
6. Request for an extension for the deadlines for the Preliminary and Final Reports of the Commission from March 9, 2010 to May 21, 2010 and June 9, 2010 to July 16, 2010 respectively. Action Item
7. Introduction to the Instant Runoff Voting issue (6:00 PM)
a Introduction to the IRV: Ben Chipman
b Speakers on IRV:
i. Rob Richie, Executive Director, Fair Vote
ii. Jo Lamarche, Former Burlington Clerk (by phone)
iii. Linda Cohen, Portland Clerk
iv. Julie Flynn, Assistant Secretary of State
c Questions for the speakers
d General discussion
e What else do you need to know?
8. Should we continue to keep on our list for further research and discussion the issues of clean election funding and of changing the ratio of district and at large councilors or should we remove them? (7:30 PM)
9. Adjourn (8:30 PM)

Note IRV Materials posted on website under “Background Materials”