Today’s (January 21, 2013) El Paso Times has an article “Public input needed for charter changes”. It addresses some of the issues that the city’s Ad Hoc Charter Advisory Committee is considering. The plan is to have some public meetings and then take their recommendations to city council. City council will then decide what to put on the May 2013 ballot for approval or rejection by the voters. According to the article “council has the final say on what to take to voters”.
Cato wrote about the issue in Charter Changes?
According to the city web site one of the purposes of the committee is “making revisions that (1) are appropriate to the Council-Manager form of government …”.
Huh? How about “proposing revisions to our form of government”? Why must they be appropriate to the Council-Manager form of government? Well, they tried limiting a similar group back in Philadelphia a couple of hundred years ago. Maybe this new group will try to stretch beyond the limits that our local cabal is trying to impose on them.
Go to a meeting. Express your thoughts about the mess we have. This is your chance.
The article even indicates you can contribute by sending an email to citymanager@elpasotexas.gov.
Give me a break! The city manager? Is that like asking Caesar if he still wants to be emperor? My namesake (or tocayo locally) took care of that himself.
Would the city manager not be fair and forward all emails? It does not make any difference. The city manager should not be involved in the process.
Why can’t the public send in their thoughts to the committee directly?
We deserve better
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