The ballot language from the city website:
SHALL SECTION 3.20, ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY, OF THE CITY CHARTER BE CREATED, SECTION 3.6 BE AMENDED, AND SECTION 2.2 G BE DELETED, RELATING TO ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY: TO MOVE AND AMEND THE PROVISION GOVERNING THE ETHICS REVIEW COMMISSION TO GIVE THE COMMISSION THE POWER TO ENFORCE ITS DECISIONS BY ASSESSING CIVIL FINES AND SANCTIONS AS AUTHORIZED BY ORDINANCE; AND TO CREATE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT INTERNAL AUDIT FUNCTION AND A FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND AUDIT COMMITTEE TO PROVIDE OVERSIGHT OF THE AUDIT FUNCTION AND REVIEW CITY FINANCIAL POLICIES?
Then in a section titled “What It Does?” the city writes:
“Internal auditor shall be appointed and removed by the City Manager with the approval of City Council.”
What? Appointed and removed by the city manager? Are they nuts? Where does it say that in the proposition? This is a fine example of how city staff intends to write whatever they want into the charter after you approve a general idea.
We should remember the El Paso Independent School District superintendent who is now in jail. The school board says that they did not know what he was up to. The auditor reported to the superintendent, not to the board, according to the superintendent.
The rest of the proposition regardless of any potential benefits that may come to us cannot overcome this fatal flaw.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
I guess the “independent internal audit function” = city manager and the “audit committee” = city council??? That’s what I call progresso-speak!
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This website woud have more credibility if contributors signed their real names. All thses aliases reduce this site to internet gibberish. Some courage here would give these allegations teeth. As it is, everything written here is insignificant.
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Richard,
I understand your point. The blog makes a serious effort to keep things from getting personal. The writers seldom use individual’s names. The decision to use pseudonynms was a judgment call. The writers check their facts carefully.
Cato
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The suggestion that “everything” written under a pseudonym is “insignificant” has less credibility than most of the thoughtful posts of Brutus and his pals. Benjamin Franklin and many of his contemporaries wrote under various pen name and developed entire personalities for their different pen names. Then there was Samuel Clemens, who wrote more than a few important books under the name of Mark Twain.
Just because a person writes under a pen name doesn’t diminish the value of his or her ideas. In this forum, one must judge ideas and thoughts on their merits, not simply because the writer is of a certain social, political of economic status.
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The coommentators here are no Ben Franklins or Samuel Clemenses. Who cares what anonymous people on the internet say?
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