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<br />A special meeting has been called for Thursday, February 15, at 6:00 p.m. to receive the <br />Committee's proposed charter changes. I am giving you this document tonight so that you can <br />review it before that meeting. Please take time to review the reasons for each proposed change. <br />I believe each of you would see areas that you think could or should be changed. Once the <br />Council starts to change the document presented to them by the Charter Study Committee, then it <br />becomes the City Council's document and as more changes are proposed by the Council, it will <br />eventually become a political document, and its chances for approval will diminish. I plead with <br />you to pass the proposed Charter Study Committee's document on to the voters AS IS and let the <br />voters decide. <br /> <br />It will be the Council's responsibility to see that the voters are educated on this document. The <br />Council needs a plan and a strategy as to how this will be done. The Paris Charter Study <br />Committee appointed by you, I believe, will agree, if asked by the Council, to hold District <br />meetings to explain and answer all questions concerning the importance of the changes. I <br />strongly recommend that you ask them to assist you in educating the voters on this very <br />important document. <br /> <br />This is a time in the life of Paris, Texas, when you should let the voters decide on the changes to <br />this document that will govern them in the future. I believe this process will help reduce some of <br />the divisiveness that appears to me to exist in this community. <br /> <br />Paris, Texas, deserves a chance for a new beginning - give it to them! <br />