05-20-2026 Charter Review Committee Meeting - May 20, 2026

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What are the initial recommendations and formatting changes being presented?

Unknown 14:00

On that,

Suds Jain 14:01

the recommendation might be on the... Oh, they couldn't hear us from... Now they can extra hear us.

Unknown 14:23

That

Suds Jain 14:25

section... John Potter, Not be included in the ultimate recommendation to the group right that's an important stakeholder and if there's some resistance or opposition to those provisions that that's likely to be something that. John Potter, Our office recommends and ultimately group five you know recommends you know be excluded from the comprehensive recommendation. keeping our fingers crossed, hoping that, you know, that that will break, you know, a different direction. We'll at least do obviously formatting changes and renumbering. So that section plugs in right the way, you know, where it should and the rest of it. But some of those substantive changes to align a current practice with what the charter says, because they were misaligned, won't, are potentially not going to be part of the ultimate recommendations.

Suds Jain 15:17

So those were quick presentations on one, three, and five. Mr. Chair, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask if any of the members of groups one, three, or five wanted to supplement that report out as part of the report out to the group today.

Pat Nicolai 15:42

I see none.

Suds Jain 15:43

Very good. Next slide is the kind of the transition to the much more substantive and detailed report outs that's the focus of tonight's meeting from groups two, four, and six. The language really for all groups, but particularly for two, four, and six has been developed over multiple meetings, including stakeholder input, as you all know. there has also been throughout this process report outs monthly to the full CRC that were designed to keep the CRC and the public aware of the issues that were being discussed at the subcommittee level. And the presentation tonight for groups two, four, and six is really a of those efforts with a few caveats on certain issues that I'll identify and members of the group may identify as we go through this.

Suds Jain 16:46

But the culmination of the efforts to solicit the full CRC input and direction, the idea is that after that exercise, if the CRC is comfortable with one or more of these groups reporting out in this comprehensive way um the direction would be to finalize those terms you know and bring it back uh ultimately to this group when you all meet for your final um you know recommendation to the city council so tonight is intended to be the next step on the path towards some of the subcommittee groups reaching the final recommendation to be included in this group's larger recommendation. Currently, we're working on identifying another meeting for the CRC group in early June. And we'll talk later about how that aligns with the schedule that we're developing with the city council.

Suds Jain 17:54

We may be able to present at least in a workshop format to the city council as early as June 9th. And we've actually got a space reserved on the June 9th agenda. So we'll talk about that later. There are still issues, as any of you have seen, particularly the ones who are reading this extra carefully, and I thank you all for that. There are still, I'm sure, issues with grammar and typos and consistency and cross-references and formatting. All of that's still under internal review by our office, and I think by any of you, because I'm getting a lot of good answers. you know, corrections from folks either just separately in email communications or at the subcommittee meetings. So please don't think even though this is a substantial report out, hey, tell me what you think that that process isn't ongoing and won't be ongoing up until the point where the language is presented to the city council.

Suds Jain 18:58

So with that, any question on the nature of what's happening tonight with groups two, four and six before I dive in, deputized by all the groups to lead the presentation starting with group two? Very good, thank you, Mr. Chair. So group two, it was assigned the sections of the charter dealing with the city council, elections, powers, and conduct of meetings. Unfortunately, as you all know, somewhat awkwardly conduct of meetings, because conduct of meetings was really divided in the charter.