Note: The agenda and minutes list the meeting date as May 12, 2026, but the user has specified May 15, 2026. This summary uses that corrected date.
The Charter Commission met to review proposed clarifications and technical revisions to the Home Rule Charter, forwarded by Mayor Kim Norton. The commission approved previous minutes and made several unanimous decisions on specific sections, deferring some items to a later meeting.
Present Phyllis President Michael President. Hey, John? President. Marshall. Astan is absent. Mal Academy. Present. Roll me. Here. Fred? Here. John? Here. And CD. Absence. We have three uh excused absents, or they let us know about that. So we do have a quorum. We will continue. First up, we have approval of the minutes from the March 10th meeting. Mode for motion and second. Any discussion. Rachel, okay, thank you. All in favor, then say aye. All right. Opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. This is the opportunity for open comment period. If there's anyone from the audience that would care to speak, preferably on any topic uh not on the agenda, but uh anyone care to speak. Mayor, anyone you say not on the agenda. I assuming this is on the agenda. Your topic is on the agenda. Rather probably take comments then. I'm guessing it would be interaction. That would be fine. All right. Then we will move on. Um we have one unfinished business item, which is the review of the home rule charter. This is in reference to some um comments that the mayor has forwarded. Um on various sections of the charter looking for response from the commission. The document that you should have received, um, you'll remember last time. Uh apology that you did not have the document in front of you. Um I did, but you you had not, so it wasn't fair to really get into much discussion. You should have that document now, and you'll see the comments, the ones that are noted with Jody's um initial. Um, that those are a result of a conversation she had with the mayor and trying to capture the the thoughts and document them and uh so those are brought forward for our consideration. And then the other comments are from Michael and his um comments on each of the those. So we can proceed any way you like here. My suggestion is we can start at the top and work through. If it looks like it's something really simple, like a grammatical thing, I mean we can decide and move on. Um if there's one that takes a little discussion, that's fine.