05-27-2026 Charter Review Committee Meeting - May 27, 2026

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What is discussed during the opening roll call and meeting procedures?

Pat Nikolai 0:04

My uh that's my Q. Okay. Uh, this meeting will be recorded. The Zoom application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. Please press continue on the Zoom application to stay in the meeting. Use the raise your hand feature in Zoom when you would like to speak on an item, and to also lower your hand when you're finished speaking. Please unmute when called to speak and mute yourself when you are done speaking. If you are calling in by phone, identify yourself by name before speaking on an item. Press star nine on your phone to raise and lower your hand, and press star six if you are participating participating by phone to unmute. Uh, this is the call to the order for the May twenty seventh meeting of the Charter Review Committee.

Pat Nikolai 0:45

Uh, will staff please call the role?

Polly Roberts 0:52

Polly Roberts. Uh, Nikolai?

Rafael Mandelman 0:56

Yeah.

Polly Roberts 0:57

Bernard Tansey. Mohammed Naveed. John Brooks.

Unknown 1:03

Here.

Polly Roberts 1:03

Joe Susinski?

Unknown 1:04

Here.

Polly Roberts 1:06

Eric Crutchlow.

Unknown 1:07

Here.

Polly Roberts 1:08

Bertfield.

Unknown 1:09

Here.

Polly Roberts 1:11

Steve Kelly. Lauren Diamond, here. Eric Jensen.

Unknown 1:19

Here.

Polly Roberts 1:21

Mark Beckman. Susan Peters here. Thank you.

Pat Nikolai 1:27

Excellent. Uh good evening. My name is Pat Nikolai and I'm the chair of the Charter Review Committee. On behalf of the committee, welcome to today's meeting. At this time, please turn off or mute all electronic devices, including cell phones, that may interrupt the meeting. So we'll get started with our agenda and item number one of general business is report outs as needed from the following ad hoc subcommittees and possible action on recommendations from groups one, three, four, and five. And all six are are listed. Yeah.

Polly Roberts 2:02

Mr. Chair, I just need to confirm with our remote participant. Uh Mr. Jensen, can you please confirm that you posted your notice 24 hours, the agenda 24 hours ahead of time, that you're in a publicly accessible location and there's nobody over the age of 18 with you.

Unknown 2:20

Uh yes, that's right. I I'm also on the second floor of a public space and there's no one up here with me.

Polly Roberts 2:27

Thank you.

Glenn Robinson 2:33

Very good. Uh Mr. Chair, thank you. Um We're gonna Dive right into it tonight 'cause as you know, we've got a lot to to get done. No need to uh do the minutes from last meeting. We d we don't have minutes prepared yet for the last meeting. Yes, that's part of the diving right in. Yeah. With with one Um Comment and also now noting for the record. Oh, member Brooks was here even when you called role. Okay. Um noting that things are just getting better and better for this group. Um there is in fact coffee and cookies, you know, today for you and any members of the public who might want to partake of that. Um at your next meeting I'll try to do better still. That we have Courtney to thank uh for actually arranging that for all of us.

Glenn Robinson 3:21

And uh depending upon how late we go, the coffee and or cookies might become more and more necessary. Um So um Do we have this up? Um diving into this item number one, the report outs. Um The um we do have All of the groups um listed, uh Mr. Chair, but um as is indicated on the report, and as you know, we're gonna focus on The groups that have not reported out in detail yet, with the hope of getting, you know, direction from this committee to proceed with finalizing. You know, those sections for those groups. Uh with the idea that Um Ultimately all of those sections would be assembled uh and be part of your recommendation to the city council. um as one of the culminations of this work effort. Uh so first slide.

Glenn Robinson 4:20

Um here's our groups, color coded as you know that I like. Uh next slide. Um Just a little bit of background here on the um how we got to the subcommittee uh recommendations, both for you and the public. Um, as you know, the language um for the various sections was developed over multiple meetings, um, including uh um depending upon the committee with uh um significant stakeholder input. The report outs then from the ad hoc subcommittees occurred to the full CRC on a monthly basis. This was designed to keep the CRC in the loop on all the various ad hoc subcommittee activities and the public aware of the issues that were being discussed. Uh the presentations tonight. From group one, three, four, and five.