Thanks, Charter Commission

Friday afternoon, I proposed to the Charter Commission the process to take ideas submitted by the public and select from those the supported changes that could be applied to the City Charter. The Commission voted 5 to 2 to support that proposal as a guide for their own process.

What can we expect? Well, we should see ideas flow in an orderly way once they are identified as being of interest to the Commission. Supporting input will be sought early and these ideas will be on published agendas to alert the public about their progress.

The Commission also decided to convert their evening meetings into work sessions where the interested citizens who cannot attend the daytime meetings have a chance to express their views. This will allow the Commission to make some headway against their backlog.

In fact we can already see some changes in their lists, identifying those ideas still under consideration and those that do not have support.