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A Publication of Guidry News Service |
The City of Galveston Charter Review Committee Monday evening continued to fine-tune language in proposed amendments to the City Charter, and agreed to call a public hearing for 5 p.m. on Monday, February 2, following a 4 p.m. meeting of the committee. The committee agreed on language for amendments to require elections by majority vote, rather than plurality; exempting downtown from the Charter's prohibition against privatizing the sanitation department; requiring that emergency appropriations and debts be retired within 36 months; to delete responsibility for the capital improvement program and the need for a budget from the provision regulating the Planning Commission; and to amend the section on open records and meetings to make them track state law. The committee will discuss an amendment to the seven percent limit on spending language to exempt grant funds and proceeds from loans at next week's meeting. The commission discussed again, but took no action on Steve Greenberg's proposal to limit loans from the enterprise funds to the general fund. Greenberg will meet with Finance Director Rick Glasset and bond attorney Bob Randolph to try to resolve differences on that issue. Ruth Kempner was again unsuccessful in gaining enough support from other members of the committee to remove bonded indebtedness from the tax cap. All members were present except Andrew Houston and Debbie Cano.
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