New Baltimore Council Puts Charter Question on August Ballot
Charter changes eventually could lead to a city manager in New Baltimore.
The New Baltimore City Council held their meeting Monday night at City Hall. The one-hour session was mainly focused on talk of a new charter commission, which eventually could lead to a city manager form of government for the city. The council agenda's Special Order of Business section began with approval to place the option to revise the city charter on the Aug. 7 ballot. Voters will select a "yes" or "no" answer to the question of forming a charter commission, and then the city will move forward based on that decision. Back and forth talk, with the audience included, took up the majority of the meeting. The council wrestled with the decision of whether or not to put the actual voting of charter commission members on the August ballot as…
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Liz
7:24 pm on Thursday, April 26, 2012
I just hope everyone is educated on this, there is a huge difference between amending the charter and revising the charter, make sure before you vote to investigate the differences, amend it change some of the old wording, revise you change the form of government. What we should be thinking of is as KM says, New Baltimore is one of the blessed Cities that actually are not running in the red. I … more ›