The Cleveland Charter Review will be taking proposals for changes to the Charter until July 15th.
So far there have been five proposals submitted that deal with the make-up of Cleveland City Council. They are as follows:
1) The Henley Urban Strategy Group (Gerald Henley) submitted a proposal at the June 18th Charter Review Commission meeting. The proposal is to change the structure and size of Council from the current 21-member, ward based council to a council of 11-members representing 7-wards and 4-at-large positions
REF:
- See Charter Review Commission Supplemental Materials, 6-18-08 Public Hearing notes:
http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/Home/CharterReviewCommission/Charter... [1]
2) Martin J. Sweeney, Council President introduced a proposal on June 19th for Council "right-sizing" to reduce the existing 21-member council to a size that would equal 1-member per 25,000 people, 17-members using the current 2006 US Census population estimate.
REF:
- June 19, 2008 - Charter Review Commission Meeting minutes:
http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/CharterReview61908/tabid/519/Default... [2]
- See Charter Review Commission Supplemental Materials, Council Right sizing proposal;
http://clevelandcharter.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/city-council-reorganiza... [3]
3, 4 & 5) Brian Cummins, Councilman, Ward 15 submitted three proposals on July 3rd. The preferred proposal is to restructure Council to a 14-ward and 3-at-large seat body; the second proposal is for a 14-ward and 1-at-large Council (at-large seat would be for the council Presidency); and the third proposal is to maintain the all-ward based Council but to reduce it to 15-seats. The proposals also include staggering elections so they occur every two years as opposed to 4-years and to redistrict the wards to conform as best as possible with the planning and police district boundaries.
REF:
- July 3, 2008 Charter Review Commission Meeting minutes:
http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/Home/CharterReviewCommission/Charter... [4]
-PDF copy of proposal:
http://clevelandcharter.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/city-council-reorganiza... [3]
Brian J. Cummins
bcummins [at] clevelandcitycouncil [dot] org
216-459-8400
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Links:
[1] http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/Home/CharterReviewCommission/CharterReviewCommissionDocs/tabid/452/Default.aspx
[2] http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/CharterReview61908/tabid/519/Default.aspx
[3] http://clevelandcharter.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/city-council-reorganization-proposals-to-date/
[4] http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/Home/CharterReviewCommission/CharterReview7308/tabid/524/Default.aspx
[5] http://66.228.45.157/system/files/restructuring_council_bcummins_2008-july_vcr1.pdf
[6] http://66.228.45.157/forum/looking-linux-systems-administrator-cleveland-medical-informatics-startup-explorys
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