DEPARTMENT: Office of the City Attorney
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Andy Segovia, City Attorney
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
November 6, 2018 Election for three City Charter Amendments proposed by the Fire Union.
SUMMARY:
This item orders an election to be held on November 6, 2018 for three City Charter amendments proposed by the Fire Union.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On April 11, 2018, three petitions were submitted to the Office of the City Clerk to amend the City Charter as follows:
1) To limit the term the City Manager may serve to no longer than eight years, to limit the compensation of the City Manager to no more than ten times the annual salary furnished to the lowest paid full-time city employee, and to require a supermajority vote to appoint the City Manager;
2) To increase the number of days within which a petition may be filed seeking a referendum on an ordinance passed by council from forty to one hundred eighty days after passage of the ordinance, to provide that no more than twenty thousand signatures of registered voters are required for a petition to amend the City Charter instead of ten percent of those electors qualified to vote at the last regular municipal election, and to expand the types of ordinances that may be subject to referendum including appropriation of money, levying a tax, granting a franchise, fixing public utility rates, zoning and rezoning of property; and
3) To provide the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 624 with unilateral authority to require the City to participate in binding arbitration of all issues in dispute with the Association within forty-five days of the City's receipt of the Association's written arbitration request.
On May 17, 2018, the Office of the City Clerk reported to the City Council that the three petitions were signed by a sufficient number of qualified electors.
This item satisfies City Council's ministerial duty to order the Charter amendment election to be held...
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