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ordinarily charged by the Council, by way of an ordinance, specifying the number, qualifications, and duties of those members. In any event, it should be clearly understood by all concerned that the Council is not legally obligated to accept any of the recommendations of the commission for changes in the current charter. As to the timing of this process, I understand that you are thinking to undertake your project in such a way that proposed amendments to the charter would be presented for voter consideration in the city's regular election in May of 2022. This will necessitate, of course, a certain amount of planning and scheduling to provide time for the review commission to be organized, to fulfill its charge, and to satisfy various other technical procedures and legal requirements. I would suggest that the Council appoint a fifteen -member commission, one of whom should be named as Chairman of the commission, leaving it to the commission to elect a vice chairman at the time of its organizational meeting. PROPOSAL FOR SERVICES I am available to act as the consultant and to provide all related services in connection with the amendment of your charter, as follows: BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS With a B.A. degree in government from the University of North Texas, I have served as city manager in four cities in Texas and one city in Virginia. I was the first executive director of the East Texas Council of Governments and served in that capacity for ten years. Under the auspices of the International Executive Service Corps, I have performed general management studies for two cities in Eastern Europe--Djebel, in Bulgaria, and Curtea de Arges, in Romania. I have been active as a consultant on city charter matters since 1998. Seven of my projects have been identical to that contemplated by Paris. In total those projects included: New Charter Projects, Charter Revision Projects City of Bastrop — 2002 City of Marshall -1999 City of Pittsburg — 2004 City of Texarkana — 2000 City of Aledo — 2021 City of Mt. Pleasant — 2002 City of Bellaire — 2005 City of Kilgore — 2006 City of Tomball — 2014 City of Texas City — 2019