Ordering a City-Wide Special Election for 11-8-2022 propositions calling for amendments to the City Charter

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Proposition W Proposition W.ballot language h ll Shall Sec. 149 of the Charter be amended to provide that not less than every five years the City Council shall appoint a Charter Commission to review the Charter to specify how the Commission members shall be selected and to require Commission members to attend Commission meetings? ❑ For ❑ Against If Proposition W is approved by the voters on November 8, 2022, Sec. 43 of the Charter will thereafter read as follows: Sec. 149. Amending the Charter. Amendments to this Charter may be framed and submitted to the qualified voters of the city by a Charter commission in the manner provided by law for framing and submitting a new charter, or maybe proposed by a majority vote of the full membership of the city council, or may be proposed by a petition signed by not fewer than five percent of the number of qualified voters in conformity with the provisions hereof. When a Charter amendment petition shall have been filed with the council in conformity with the provisions of this Charter as to petitions for initiated ordinances, the council shall forthwith provide by ordinance for submitted such proposed amendment to a vote of the voters. Any ordinance for submitting a charter amendment to the voters shall provide that the election shall occur on the next available uniform election date. Not less than 30 days prior to such election, the city clerk shall provide to the qualified voters of the city, in such manners, times and places as the council shall direct, information that shall inform the voters of the purpose and effect of the proposed amendment, including its exact language. If a proposed amendment is approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting thereon it shall then become a part of the Charter. Each amendment shall be confined to one subject; and when more than one amendment shall be submitted at the same time, they shall be so submitted as to enable the voters to vote on each amendment separately. Not less than every five years, the council shall appoint a Charter review commission to review the Charter and make recommendations to the council regarding proposed amendments, if any, that the commission considers to be appropriate and in the best interest of the city. Said Charter review commission shall comprise fifteen members and two alternates who are registered voters of the city and who are selected by council in the following manner: Each of the seven council members shall appoint two members to the commission, and the mayor and mayor pro tem shall jointly appoint the fifteenth member. The two alternate members shall be appointed after