2000-07-12 Charter Commission Minutes

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Charter Commission - Transcript of Meeting of July 12, 2000Page 3 of 45 RAY: Opposed? Okay. Item No. C, Review of Exact Ballot Questions. First non-partisan elections. MARTIN: Question, Mr. Chair. RAY: Yes. MARTIN: Are we going to follow the book that was just presented to us or are we going to follow this pamphlet that was handed out? The pamphlet is a little bit easier and has, I’ve been told, the exact language as on the Question section at least. YUEN: Is it the same? I don’t know. It should be the same. IRVINE: You’re saying that this doesn’t match this? MARTIN: No, I’m not saying that at all. I’m just saying that it’s easier to follow. Sharron indicated to me that these came verbatim out of what we’ve been – HENRY: The purple binder. MARTIN: Purple, okay. HIGASHI: It has the summary and the question together then. MARTIN: Right, but what I’m saying is just the Question portion. HIGASHI: Yes, right. IRVINE: Oh, are the question portions here different from over there? MARTIN: No. I don’t think so. They shouldn’t be. IRVINE: No, no. MARTIN: It says here ‘review ballot questions’. Instead of looking here, the question is here, right? This is explanation. RAY: Excuse me. We’re going to go back to agenda item B. because we need to take a vote on Amendments 14, 15 and 16, and wrap those up. So we should do that at the same time that we did the Department Head Qualifications. So, Chris, 14. YUEN: This is just to present what the language would look like. This was voted on on May 31st. It increases the Liquor Commission membership from 7 to 9. One member would be a resident of each Council district. If there are members who are residents of the same district when this takes effect, they would continue to serve regardless of the fact that they resided in the same districts. Nobody would be disqualified. I would draw your attention to Section 3 of this. Two new members will be appointed and those would be appointed from any vacant district. There would be at least two districts which do not have representation so the Mayor would appoint to those districts. And what it says here is ‘allow for the staggering of terms, one of the two new commissioners would be appointed to five-year term and the other appointed to a one-year term, and would be eligible for a second term’. And I wanted to specify because when Commissions start off, they have started off with different lengths of terms, and so they file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 07-12-00.html7/1/2011