30 - Adoption of Voter-Approved Amendments to the City's Home Rule Charter

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Item No. 30 TO: City Council Grayson Path, City Manager FROM: Stephanie H. Harris, City Attorney SUBJECT: Ordinance adopting voter -approved amendments to the city's Home Rule Charter DATE: December 12, 2022 BACKGROUND: On November 8, 2022, the voters of the City of Paris passed some 23 amendments to the city's Home Rule Charter (Propositions A -D and F -X). Proposition X was a clean up amendment which reads 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. On November 12, council passed Ordinance No. 2022-085 adopting this new Sec. 151 (renumbered in Exhibit B to the attached proposed ordinance as Sec. 129). STATUS OF ISSUE: I have since, as directed, gone through and made the changes set forth in the new section. Exhibit B to the proposed ordinance comprises the entire Charter, with all amendments set forth as approved by the voters and directed by Ordinance No. 2022-085 in strike