06-17-2026 Charter Review Committee - Jun 17, 2026

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What opening procedures and roll call are covered at the beginning of the meeting?

John Brooks 0:02

With eleven forty five.

Pat Nikolai 0:04

Excellent. Okay, uh as noted, 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 also to 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. Press star six if you are participating by phone to unmute. So this is the call to order for the June seventeenth meeting of the Charter Review Committee.

Pat Nikolai 0:43

Will staff please call role?

Unknown 0:47

Ollie Roberts. Pat Nikolai. Yeah.

Pat Nikolai 0:52

Yeah? All right.

Unknown 0:54

Bernard Tansi. Mohammed Naveed? Yeah. John Brooks.

John Brooks 1:04

Here.

Unknown 1:06

Joe Susinski. Eric Crutchlow. Bert Field. Eve Kelly. Lauren Diamond. Here. Eric Jensen. Mark Beckman. Yeah. Susan Peters. Here. Thank you.

Pat Nikolai 1:33

We have someone participating remotely.

Unknown 1:37

Yes, it's me, Lauren.

Unknown 1:44

We're thinking my might might be working better and it is. I I'm I'm not as echoey. Um Lauren, just wanted to confirm um that uh You are uh there um alone in that there's uh no one else. Uh um of eighteen or older um present. And that if that does those circumstances do change, you would notify us. Yes, to all of that. Yeah, and um Lauren is uh uh participating her her location wasn't identified in the agenda. She's uh participating based on um four cause exemption due to illness. Is that correct, Lauren? That's correct. Thank you. Excellent.

Pat Nikolai 2:24

So 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. And we will jump into our general business. And the first item of general business is report out on council feedback and direction, if any, from their June 9th and June 15th discussions regarding the Charter Review Committee final report and recommendation and possible CRC direction on any and necessary appropriate next steps. And uh I know there's a staff report. But before we do the staff report, I was wondering if we get some feedback from any of the

Pat Nikolai 3:06

Charter review members that were present. If anybody wanted to give any feedback.

Unknown 3:10

Not suitable for work. Yeah, and there is a point during the uh presentation too, Mr. Chair, for that as well. After I give my readout, uh was gonna invite that. Then Glenn, the floor is yours. Very good. Thank you. Uh first slide. Um Um As the group knows, since uh your Meeting. Um On June third, there's actually been two. Uh City Council sessions on this subject. The first one occurred on June ninth. It was a study session. Which? Um for those of you unfamiliar with that, um, is a Usually a presentation on a topic that's expected to take, you know, some time. where no action, you know, is contemplated or agendized. Uh and it's really f to um Uh have Um the the substance of a matter presented, you know, and and received, you know, questions and initial feedback.

Unknown 4:15

Uh from the city council in expectation of future action, you know, that they might take. And so this item was presented in that context, um, scheduled from 530 to 7. It took uh uh pretty much all of that. Um as you recall on June 3rd you designated some CRC members to access uh to assist both with the Uh, the finalization of your formal report and the presentation of this item. Um Very nice attendance of that group, including members Diamond, Peters, Roberts, and Crutchlow from that group, with I think some additional participation from at least attendance from Member Kelly and maybe Member Brooks was there as well. John, were you there at that first meeting too? So that was nice. And those folks were introduced as well as um uh you know, appreciation for the CRC members generally.

Unknown 5:12

There was an initial staff presentation. It included the a description of the charter project origins.