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February 17, 2005
Update Charter Draft timeline
From: Carole Wheeldon
Dear Charter Review Committee,
Please find attached a Draft Timeline for the balance of our work. It is predicated on
some assumptions that require your approval. Most notable are longer meetings and
additional meetings. We would finish up at least before July 4th but probably not in time
for the Council to hold hearings and get it on the ballot in September. A November
election may be better in terms of getting the public's attention on the issue throughout
the fall after material has been submitted to the county.
We feel this step is important in order to get the word out to the public and the press so as
to build on the interest already generated. Our committee discussed the order of topics at
length. We want to start slow, learn from the process and continue to apply what we
learn to the next topics while providing the appropriate amount of time to each. The
timeline is just a framework into which we can weave in the more complex threads of
each issue. While we will work through a template on each issue that should not limit
our discussion but rather ensure that we cover the topics completely. Each of you will be
asked to work with a member of the outreach committee on a topic fro presentation. The
outreach committee will present the first topic, City Band and we'll debug our process
from there.
As far as our work with Tom Sponsler goes we thought it best to get him going on the
model charter framework then feed him topics as we have formulated recommendations.
We then would set up someway to do the same with the council so that if they choose
they can work them into meetings throughout the spring and perhaps get more public
involvement than in the dead of summer. We will propose this to the Mayor.
We look forward to your response.
Carole, Pam and Don
Charter Review Committee Draft Timeline (2/17/05)
February 17 Review of new issues from Public Forum
March 1 Report to City Council
March 3 Begin new meeting time 6:30 - 9:00
Discussion of City Band
Determine if we will have a quorum at the Mar. 17 meeting
March 17 Discussions of Election of Council Members and Appointment of
Planning Commission.
Note
March 31 additional meeting. Conclude discussion of March 17
topics and formulate committee recommendations
April 6 Study session with City Council
April 7 (Proposed) Structure of Government Forum
Note
April 14 additional meeting. Structure of Government discussion
April 21 Formulate Structure of Government recommendation
May 5 Recorder and Judge discussions
Note
May 12 additional meeting.
Formulate Recorder and Judge recommendations
May 19 Parks and Recreation discussion
June 2 Formulate Parks and Recreation recommendation
Note
June 9 additional meeting.
Discussion of additional topics
Formulate additional topics recommendations
June 16 Review report to Council
Adjourn
June 21 Deliver report to City Council