24 - Authorizing City Attorney to make revisions to City's Home Rule Charter

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Item No. 24 TO: City Council Grayson Path, City Manager FROM: Stephanie H. Harris, City Attorney SUBJECT: Ordinance authorizing city attorney to do "clean-up" revisions to city's Home Rule Charter DATE: November 14, 2022 BACKGROUND: On November 8, 2022, the voters of the City of Paris passed, among other amendments, Proposition X, an amendment to Sec. 151 of the city's Home Rule Charter. Proposition X read as follows: Shall Sec. 151 of the Charter be amended to specify how its language is to be interpreted with regard to gender, arrangement or articles, sections and subsections, and to eliminate references to particular state statues, as appropriate? This is essentially a "clean-up" provision, as some charter sections have been deleted and others added. Upon approval of the voters, Sec. 151 now reads as follows: Sec. 151. Renumbering of charter, elimination of gender -specific reference, and elimination of references to specific state statues. The city council shall by ordinance authorize the city attorney to edit this charter for the following purposes: (1) to renumber and rearrange all articles, sections, and subsections therein, or amendments thereto. (2) to eliminate gender -specific references from various provisions therein and to substitute gender -neutral terms as deemed appropriate. (3) to eliminate from various provisions therein all references to specific state statutes, as appropriate. STATUS OF ISSUE: The attached ordinance authorizes the city attorney to make those editing changes approved by the voters when they approved Proposition X. BUDGET: N/A.