Bloomington Planning Commission — Transcript
6 Topics in This Document
Charter Commission Operations and Review Process
Charter Amendment Pathways
Periodic Review of City Charter: Chapter 4 - Elections
Periodic Review of City Charter: Chapter 5 - Citizen Reserved Powers
Periodic Review of City Charter: Chapter 6 - Administration of City Affairs
Clarity and Modernization of Charter Language
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“our Charter requires odd-year elections for our government local government offices so those are the two things that we have heard about”
“we shift it from $2 to $50 to more kind of test to see what that made people think about that a little bit”
“both times it um was adopted um by the voters to continue to be in the the form of voting and then to stay the form of voting so um twice now uh the voters have decided they want to haveing Choice voting in in the city”
“It's a very meaty substantive chapter and um really really uh gets to the essence of a charter city um creates very specific reservations of powers for the citizens.”
“The percentages that are required in order to initiate some of these measures um they are they they they have significant impacts and um there was a suggestion that the charter commission may want to pay attention and have perhaps a discussion the next time we get together about whether these percentages um to meet the threshold for these petitions to move on to the later stages are still the right percentages in this state in you know the TW in 2025”
“it really is for a lot of people their dream job to come be the city manager of wilington because it's so stable”
“it is the only this position is the only employee of the city council”
“I have no opinions about the Merit system or not having the Merit system but is removing the Merit system um some something that the the charter commission could recommend”
“the city manager can execute documents up to $175,000 and then above $175,000 uh has to be executed by the city council”
“sometimes changes in the chter our reaction to things that happen and this these sections reflect that about happening”
“I'm a firm believer of plain English and I think that all documents something the charter a constitution should be written in language that an ordinary person can understand”