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CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING
CITY OF CLEARWATER
October 5, 1998
Present: Timothy A. Johnson, Jr. Chair
Douglas Hilkert Vice Chair
Richard Fitzgerald Committee Member
Pat Greer Committee Member
Judy Mitchell Committee Member
Mayme Hodges Committee Member
Carolyn Warren Committee Member
Jackie Tobin Committee Member
William Justice Committee Member
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Absent: Grant Petersen Committee Member
Also Present: Rita Garvey Mayor (arrived 4:14 p.m.)
,.; Pam Akin City Attorney
Cyndie Goudeau City Clerk
Brenda Moses Board Reporter
The Chair called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. at City Hall.
To provide continuity for researc h, items are in agenda order although not
necessarily discussed in that order.
Item 2 - Public Input - None.
Item 3 - Follow-up From Previous Meeting
Section 2.03
The City Attorney had been requested to suggest language that addresses
specifying when term limits begin in Section 2.03,' She suggested the last sentence
of the new second paragraph read "Term limits shall be effective for each
respective seat on the date of the next election for that seat after 1994."
Member Mitchell moved to recommend the language as suggested by the
City Attorney, and to incorporate commas in the appropriate places. The motion
was duly seconded and carried unanimously.
Section 7.02
The City Attorney presented suggested language.
It was suggested sentence 1 read "The commission shall appoint a charter
review committee at least every five years hereafter provided the appointments are
made in January of a year preceding a general city election."
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Discussed ensued regarding the appointment of members and how to word
this section to assure no changes can be made to the Charter Review Committee's
recommendations and ballot questions.
Member Greer moved to recommend Section 7.02 read "The commission
shall appoint a charter review committee at least every five years hereafter,
provided the appointments are made in January of a year preceding a city election.
The charter review committee shall be appointed by the city commission and shall
be composed of ten members, two of whom shall be city commission members.
Each city commission member shall have two appointments with the exception of
the two commission members who are on the committee, who shall have one
appointment each. The charter review committee shall submit a report to the city
commission at a public meeting on or before December 1 of the year in which the
charter review is held. Included in the report shall be any proposed amendments to
the charter together with the wording of the question or questions which shall be
voted upon at referendum. The city commission shall call a referendum election to
be held in connection with the next city election for the purpose of voting on the
questions as submitted by the charter review committee. The amendments or
questions may not be changed by the city commission." The motion was duly
seconded and carried unanimously.
Non-substantive Amendments
The draft of non-substantive amendments was reviewed and the following
changes were recommended.
Section 1.01 (c)
Sentence 2 be changed to read "The City is empowered ..."
Section 2.08 (b) & (c)
All references to "journal" be changed to "minutes."
Section 4.03 (c)
Sentence 1 read ".., during a temporary absence..."
Article Il, Section 2.01 (d) (4) (v)
Delete "to" from sentence 1 after "... leased or otherwise transferred"
Section 2.04
Not delete "of office" in the last sentence.
Section 8.01
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Discussion ensued regarding a registered voter being qualified to vote in
Clearwater.
Member Warren moved to delete "... , and the County,of Pinellas..." from
sentence 1. The motion was duly seconded.
Discussion ensued and Member Warren rescinded her motion.
It was requested the City Attorney provided language for this section.
Section 2.06 (b)
Sentence 2 read "Except for the purpose of inquiries and Investigations, the
-commission members shall..."
Section 3.01
Sentence 4 read "The city manager, shall be responsible to the commission
for all city administrative affairs."
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Section 4.05
This section read "The commission shall determine..,"
{ Member Greer moved the non-substantive changes be approved as amended
and be recommended to the commission and incorporated into ballot questions as
the City Attorney advises. The motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously.
In response to,a question, the City Clerk said she will provide 3 reports to the
committee: 1) non-substantive changes; 2) substantive changes; and 3) a
combination of all substantive and non-substantive changes, She requested
members review the reports and call with any additional changes prior to the next
meeting.
Item 4 -Set Additional Meeting if Necessary
Consensus was to schedule a final meeting to approve the reports on
October 28, 1998 at 4:00 p.m.
Item 5 - Adicurn
The meeting adjourned at 5:10 p.m.
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Charter Review Committee
Attest:
Board Reporter
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