Monday, July 29, 2013

CSC Study Winding Down

CSC met on 7-18-13 in the City Hall Planning Conference Room, to continue deliberating over proposed changes to the charter. The Final Report is in the drafting process, and will be finally reviewed and edited by the Commissioners at the 8-1-13 meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Planning Conference Room. Any last minute deliberations will also be conducted at that meeting.

Time has flown, and the 8-1-13 meeting is our final scheduled meeting. Our Final Report is due on 8-6-13 in the City Clerk's office, and will be available to all interested citizens shortly after that, check the blog next week for details. 

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

CSC Holds Public Forum and Deliberates

At the July 11th meeting, CSC held a public forum during the first hour of the meeting, and deliberated during the second half of the meeting.

Commissioner Criscione prepared and presented a slide presentation reviewing the activities of the Commission to date. Thank you to the members of the public who came to watch and participate. The entire presentation can be downloaded from the City Clerk's website.

Deliberations regarding amendments to our special charter will continue at our next to last meeting on Thursday, July 18, 2013 in the Planning Conference Room. The Commission's final meeting will be held on August 1, 2013, and our Final Report is due on August 6th.   

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Charter Study Commission announces Public Forum

The first hour of the Charter Study Commission July 11th meeting will be devoted to a Public Forum. A PowerPoint presentation will outline the work that we have done since our organizational meeting on 12/11/12, and we will seek comment and feedback from citizens.

The Commission has welcomed public participation at all of our meetings and participation will be encouraged at this meeting as well. We will answer charter study related questions from any citizen who wishes to attend. 

If you cannot attend, but have been following our meetings by reading minutes, email your charter related questions to meburgwinkle@comcast.net. We will deal with as many questions as time permits at the meeting, and will answer the others on the blog.

The meeting will be on July 11, 2013, starting at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall Library.  All Charter Study Commission meetings are open to the public.