May 26, 2010

Final charter hearing slated for Thursday

A final public hearing on proposed city charter changes is slated for 6 p.m. Thursday at City Hall.
The Charter Revision Commission plans to suggest two significant overhauls to the city government’s blueprint – increasing the terms of office for elected officials to four years instead of two and adding a requirement that mayors ensure performance evaluations are carried out for many top municipal officials.
A number of minor revisions are also on the table.
The hearing allows members of the public one last chance to sway the seven-member panel before it issues its report to the City Council. It is under orders to finish by June 1.
The most controversial item is the move to give mayors, city councilors, registrars and a few minor elected officers twice as long between elections.
Instead of running every two years, they would only have to face the voters every four years, if the proposal is ultimately approved.

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

4 year terms, guaranteed that Krawiecki runs.

Anonymous said...

The actions, the performance, of Ward and this Council provide tremendous rationale as to why terms SHOULD NOT be extended.

Anonymous said...

12:27

I dcould not have said it better.

Anonymous said...

WARD WAS AGAINST 4 YEAR TERMS WHEN STORTZ WAS IN OFFICE, NOT THAT WARD IS IN OFFICE HE IS FOR IT? TYPICAL WARD!!

MAYOR LIES TO TAXPAYERS, ALONG WITH HIS FAMILY. I WAS HOPING PAT WOULD SEE THROUGH HIM BY NOW - BUT GUESS WARD KNOWS HOW TO LIE ALL TO WELL.

Craig Minor said...

So how come none of you showed up at the hearing Thursday to tell us why you think this is a bad idea?

Anonymous said...

11:34

Craig

Because we are smart enough to realize that you had/have your minds made up and any involvement on our part would be an exercise in futility

Anonymous said...

Mr. Minor

Artie has you all working lock step together.

Only way we can change that is at the ballot box.

Anonymous said...

typical ignorant Bristolites! First off, Minor is no longer a councilman. Secondly, if you watch the council, which you people obviously don't, you would see that the council most certainly doesn't NOT walk in lock step with the mayor. In fact, it's quite the contrary, thank God! Ward would love to have them all behind him but he doesn't hence the continued division in the ranks among the Democrats. Stop making stupid, false statements. It's clear when you don't know what's happening you just make blanket statements that have no merit. Get the facts before you post.

Anonymous said...

1:55

I know that Minor is no longer on the Council, but even you have to be aware that Ward approves the appointments and was quite influential this time around in getting those that HE wanted on the Revision Commission.

Craig Minor said...

7:06 pm:

The Mayor did not approve the appointments. The way it works is each council member (including the Mayor) gets to pick one person to be on the Commission. The whole slate is then approved by the entire city council. The Mayor had no more say in who got picked than any council member.

Anonymous said...

11:49

Wanna buy a bridge???