The Tacoma City Council held a study session on July 2, 2024, beginning at 12:00 PM and reconvening at approximately 3:00 PM after an executive session. The agenda included a review of proposed charter amendment 24C (Reorganization of Government), a sponsorship request for the South End Neighborhood Council Block Party and Resource Fair, and a presentation from the Pierce County Auditor on ballot procedures and logistics for the November 5, 2024 election.
I'd like to call to order the city council study session of July 2nd, 2024. Clerk, will you please call the roll? Council members are questioned. Council member D'Angelo. Council Member Diaz. Council Member Ramba. Council Member Scott. Here, what are here? Council members to study session material sent to that 1029. Let the record show that council member Diaz is online. Council Member Diaz, can you hear? I can hear, but actually whoever is clerk right now is really hard to hear. I don't know if they're not mic is maybe not turned on. She doesn't have a mic, that's why. Okay, okay. So thank thank you, Councilmember Diaz. All right. All right. Um did you read the study session materials? Did you read that already? Wonderful. All right. So we're gonna have a change in in uh in the order of items listed on today's agenda. We will first hear items one and three, followed by an executive session. Following the executive session, starting at approximately 3 p.m., we will reconvene to hear item two, the Pierce County Auditor Ballot Procedures and Listics. So our first agenda item is um proposed charter amendment reviews, and we'll start with 24 C reorganization of government. And so and then and then the second item will be review of upcoming council action on charter amendments. So I'd like to begin the presentation by calling on uh city manager Polly. Thank you, Mayor. So council or so council um members, in regard to the proposed um well in regard to proposed charter amendment 24C. The version that you have in your binders is the version that incorporates the changes that were discussed in your last section. So this is just a confirmation for you to tune into that um to that version um as the um most complete version to date of all the changes that have been discussed. What you're seeing is a clean copy of that um amendment. Um but as you'll recall, some of the changes included correction of language. We had some uh we had incorporated some language about landmarks um as an error in one section. Um we were clarifying that um the the removal of the prohibition of current council members on the term limits. Those are some of the changes that we talked about that are now incorporated in this last version of 24 C and the sponsors can certainly um speak to um to those changes as well, Mayor. Okay, thank you very much to the amendment. City manager, just to make sure that I'm on the right page. We're talking about the blue, right? You are talking about blue, it's called it's entitled um council proposed amendment version C under 20 CRC recommendation 24. Gotcha, thank you very much. All right, I will first call on um council member Diaz, who's the prime sponsor of this. Councilmember Diaz, would you like to make some comments about this about this final uh document? I know beyond what the city manager here is just a clean up version of what we're doing. Okay, great. Uh Deputy Mayor Hines, do you have something to add? Uh thank you, Madam Mayor. No, not at this time. I think I'm very happy that we've got a final clean version that's in front of everyone for us to look at.