There’s a mistake in the Charter Commission’s Final Report to City Council. It’s in the “possible language” associated with Recommendation 30, the Commission’s proposal to tie the size of City Council to a standard ward population of 25,000.
Recommendation 30’s “possible language” (on page 30 of the Report) reads:
§ 25 DIVIDING THE CITY INTO WARDS
The [...]
Hot off the press:Â The Final Report of the 2008 Cleveland City Charter Review Commission.
It’s 82 pages long, a fairly big pdf file (756 kb). Includes all the proposals (approved and unapproved), the votes, the Commission members’ priorities for City Council action, and individual comments by several members including yours truly.
My comments are on pages [...]
The Charter Review Commission met for almost five hours today (with no breaks) and completed voting on all of the 150+ proposals on our list. The results will be assembled in a final report to be approved at the Commission’s last meeting this Thursday, and submitted to City Council Friday.
On the issue of Council reduction, [...]
The Charter Review Commission’s final report to City Council is due Friday. The last official meeting will take place Thursday. But the voting is likely to be finished tomorrow, at a special meeting starting at 8:30 am.
On tomorrow’s menu:
various proposals to reduce, reconfigure and redistrict City Council
my proposals to create Neighborhood Planning and Service Districts [...]
If you’re trying to follow the proceedings at the Cleveland City Charter Review Commission:
1) The deadline for submitting any new proposals for the Commission to consider is this Tuesday, July 15 — by email, postal mail or hand delivery to the City Council office. If you’re walking it in, remember the Council office closes at [...]
If you’ve been itching for that Council reduction fight to get started already, your time may have arrived. My Councilman, Brian Cummins of Ward 15, has a plan.  Well, actually, three plans, but they all involve at least two fewer ward Council members than Marty Sweeney’s plan. And two of them involve at-large seats. And [...]
With a month to go, the City Charter Review Commission now has 138 formal proposals to revise twelve of the twenty chapters of the Cleveland Home Rule Charter. And we haven’t even gotten one yet for “Council reform”.
How can citizens keep track?
Be among the first to check out the new Cleveland Diary Special Project: Cleveland [...]
I doubt that anyone remembers it (I didn’t, and I was there), but the 1988 Cleveland City Charter Review Commission considered and rejected a proposal just like Council President Sweeney’s plan to tie the number of City Council wards to an “index” of 25,000 residents.
From the Commission’s “Final Report to City Council, Part III: Other [...]
At the Charter Review Commission meeting this morning, City Council President Martin Sweeney proposed to tie the size of City Council to an “index” of 25,000 residents per ward.
Sweeney wants the new system, which would probably result in an immediate reduction from 21 to 17 Council members, to take effect for the 2009 municipal election. [...]
The first of three Cleveland City Charter Review Commission community meetings will take place tonight from 6 to 8 pm at the Tri-C Metro Campus (Campus Center Bldg., Room 10). The purpose of the session is to get proposals, ideas and feedback from the public, so if you have something to say about the City [...]