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CityCouncil | 2007-09-04 | 5 | is October 20 at Alameda Point. REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS (07-425) Report on the process for Council-Initiated City Charter Amendments ; and consideration of creating a City Council Sub- committee or Ad-Hoc Committee to Review the Charter for Suggested Amendment of City Charter Provisions. The City Attorney provided a brief presentation. Mayor Johnson stated Charter amendments need to be placed on the ballot in a certain amount of time before the election; inquired how much time is needed. The City Attorney responded legislation would need to be adopted if Charter amendments are Council initiated; stated the legislation would need to be adopted 88 days before the intended election. The City Clerk stated next year's elections are February 5, June 3, and November 4; the deadlines for adopting a resolution to place the matter on the ballot are November 9 for the February 5 election, March 7 for the June 3 election, and August 8 for the November 4 election. Mayor Johnson stated that Council-initiated Charter amendments have not been done while she has served. Councilmember Gilmore stated that the thrust of the Charter review is to deal with portions of the Charter that are no longer applicable and to clean up some gender specific language; a list of more substantive issues would be brought back to the entire Council for discussion. Mayor Johnson stated Measure A would not be addressed. Councilmember Matarrese stated that the scope of review should not be limited; the process would be to review the entire Charter with regard to language clean up, State laws and other governing processes that have changed a list would be developed and brought back to Council; Council would pick and choose what to put on the ballot; the process would take care of what is placed on the ballot. Mayor Johnson stated that she does not want to turn the Charter review clean up into a Measure A debate. Councilmember deHaan concurred with Mayor Johnson; stated the Regular Meeting Alameda City Council 5 September 4, 2007 | CityCouncil/2007-09-04.pdf |