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To: Charter Review Committee
From:C.Wheeldon
2/23/05
Draft
Topic Template for Public Discussion and Recommendation to City Council
Issue Statement: (for example: Should the City Band remain in the charter with the
existing funding source?)
Existing Charter Language: (include all language for all parts of the charter that refers to
this topic)
Description of current status relative to:
Budget (include all references to finances including salaries, budget line items
for operations, oversight and source of revenue.)
Accountability (hiring, supervision, reporting and termination of personnel
involved with this topic)
Organizational efficiency (addresses redundancy and other inefficiencies)
Support of community values (reference community values statement)
Appropriate for charter inclusion (does this topic deal with the basic
structure of government in the city? Or is it more fluid and better addressed
as an ordinance?
Alternative choices: (for example in the case of the City Band
1. It could be removed completely from the charter
2. It could be left in the charter without a funding source
3. It could be left in with a new less specific funding source
In all cases it could be place under the auspices of the parks
and recreation department)
Practical consequences of change:
1. Eliminating the band from the charter would require the city council to establish an
ordinance to continue the band and the band board, assign it to a department for oversight
and include it as a line item in the budget.
2. Eliminating the funding source could subject the band to the same cuts that are being
made throughout the city. Currently the band levy is automatically budgeted because of
the language in the charter. Post measure 50 required that the City charge it self in the
charter to specifically fund the band and anything else it wants to have certain dollars.
3. Refer to above.
Please review and send me your thoughts and additions by Sunday so I may include them
in our discussion on Monday next. Pam, Kate, Don see you at City hall 8:30 Monday.
CW