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Call to Order and Review of Meeting. Chair Plumb (5:30 PM.) |
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Public comment on the business agenda |
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Approval of the minutes from the April 8, 2010 meeting -- Action Item. |
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Announcements – Commissioners |
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| a | | Next meeting is Thursday, April 22, the meeting will continue the review of Charter language |
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| b | | Thursday, April 29, review of Charter language. |
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Discussion and preliminary agreement on the remaining issues– Action Item. (6:00 PM) |
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| a | | Should the Mayor issues be put out as a separate ballot item from the RCV (IRV) question? Commissioners to review minutes in advance of next meeting regarding whether Commission previously discussed whether IRV and mayor issues were “inextricably linked.” If Commission elects to separate items, need to have a default process for determining mayor by majority vote. |
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| b | | Motion for reconsideration of Comm. Chipman’s motion to set the Mayor’s salary once every 4 years (Plumb and Davis, additional motion from Cohen) |
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| c | | Criteria for setting the floor for the mayor’s salary. |
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| d | | What happens if the Mayor cannot fulfill his/her duties? (Boynton draft) |
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| e | | Preamble to address school and city issues, including possible modifications to education language and addition of “health, safety, and welfare” language (Davis, others) |
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| f | | Consideration of some language on collaboration between schools and City (Cohen) |
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| g | | Should the manager have a contract for a specific number of years? (Gooch) |
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| h | | Issue of what budgets are included in “city” budget |
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Review of the Charter language as amended for the schools related issues (7:30 PM) (An up to date draft will be circulated and posted by Wednesday afternoon. Please read it in advance and come prepared with any questions or suggested changes to the drafting. We will deal with questions and suggestions rather than working through the language line by line.) |
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Adjourn (8:30 PM)
Remaining schedule of meetings:
Thursday, April 22: review of Charter language for the technical changes
Thursday, April 29: review of Charter language for the Mayor and IRV issues
Thursday, May 6: First reading of the proposed Charter Changes
Thursday, May 13: Second reading and passage of the proposed Charter Changes
Friday, May 21: Publication of Preliminary Report
Thursday, June 10: public hearing on the Preliminary Report
Thursday, June 24: discussion of any changes based on public input
Thursday, July 1: agreement on any changes to the Preliminary Report
Thursday, July 8: final passage of any amendments to the Preliminary report
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