Summary of Proposed Charter Amendments
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2025 CITY CHARTER AMENDMENT RESIDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED CHARTER AMENDMENTS Key: Non-Substantive Non-Substantive and Clarifying Substantive Article Section Summary of Proposed Amendments I 1.01 None 1.02 None I 1.03 Clarifies that the city may make contracts for any public purpose 1.04 None II 2.01 Gender neutrality 2.02 Gender neutrality; clarifies that city reimbursement policies apply to reimbursement of councilmember expenses 2.03 Gender neutrality 2.04 Grammar and punctuation 2.05 Gender neutrality; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness; grammar and punctuation; consistency of capitalization; clarifies that prohibition against city employment while holding office applies to employment with the City of Chandler; requires that a councilmember resign to run upon filing their nomination papers with the city clerk; provides that the city council shall have 45 days to fill a vacancy resulting from a councilmember’s resignation to run and that if the city council fails to fill the vacancy within that timeframe, the seat shall remain vacant and be filled during the next regular election 2.06 Gender neutrality; grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness; provides that the city council shall have 45 days to fill a vacancy in the office of councilmember or mayor resulting from death, resignation, forfeiture, or removal, and that if 2 Article Section Summary of Proposed Amendments the city council fails to fill the vacancy within that timeframe, it shall call a special election to be held as soon as practicable to fill the vacancy 2.07 Gender neutrality; grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 2.08 Authorizes the city manager to establish and organize the offices and departments of the city subject to the review and approval of the city council 2.09 Gender neutrality; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 2.10 Grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 2.11 Grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 2.12 Grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness; gender neutrality; clarifies that any person shall have the right to petition the city council 2.13 Consistency of capitalization; grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness; eliminates requirement that city departments be established or altered by ordinance (see proposed amendments to Sec. 2.08); eliminates provision referencing regulation of rates and fees by a public utility because the city has no authority to regulate said public utilities 2.14 Consistency of capitalization; grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 2.15 Consistency of capitalization; grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 2.16 Consistency of capitalization; grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness; strikes reference to ordinances regulating public utility rates (see proposed amendments to Sec. 2.13) 2.17 Consistency of capitalization; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 2.18 Consistency of capitalization; grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness III 3.01 Gender neutrality 3 Article Section Summary of Proposed Amendments 3.02 Consistency of capitalization 3.03 Consistency of capitalization; gender neutrality 3.04 Consistency of capitalization; gender neutrality IV 4.01 Grammar and punctuation; gender neutrality; adds the word “city” before the word “manager”; elimination of technical legal language and wordiness 4.02 Elimination of technical legal language or wordiness; consistency of capitalization; grammar and punctuation 4.03 Gender neutrality V 5.01 None V 5.02 Grammar and punctuation 5.03 Grammar and punctuation; gender neutrality 5.04 Grammar and punctuation; adds the word “city” before the word “manager” 5.05 Grammar and punctuation; adds the word “city” before the word “manager”; consistency of capitalization 5.06 None 5.07 Consistency of capitalization; adds the word “city” before the word “manager” 5.08 Adds the word “city” before the word “manager” 5.09 None 5.10 Gender neutrality; adds the word “city” before the word “council” 5.11 None 5.12 None 5.13 Gender neutrality; grammar and punctuation 5.14 None VI 6.01 Adds the word “city” before the word “council”; grammar and punctuation VII 7.01 Grammar and punctuation; consistency of capitalization; gender neutrality; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 4 Article Section Summary of Proposed Amendments 7.02 Gender neutrality; grammar and punctuation 7.03 Elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 7.04 Grammar and punctuation VIII 8.01 Grammar and punctuation; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 8.02 Grammar and punctuation IX 9.01 Elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 9.02 Gender neutrality; adds “gender” and “other protected status” as bases for prohibited discrimination 9.03 Eliminates requirement that department heads establish residency in the city within six months of appointment; continues residency requirement for city manager; authorizes council to require residency as a condition for any other position council appoints X 10.01 None 10.02 Strikes section applicable only at the time of the initial adoption of the charter and no longer necessary 10.03 Strikes section applicable only at the time of the initial adoption of the charter and no longer necessary 10.04 Strikes section applicable only at the time of the initial adoption of the charter and no longer necessary 10.05 Strikes section applicable only at the time of the initial adoption of the charter and no longer necessary 10.06 Strikes section applicable only at the time of the initial adoption of the charter and no longer necessary 10.07 Renumbered as 10.02; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness 10.08 Strikes section applicable only at the time of the initial adoption of the charter and no longer necessary 10.09 Renumbered as 10.03; consistency of capitalization; grammar and punctuation 10.10 Renumbered as 10.04; consistency of capitalization; grammar and punctuation 5 Article Section Summary of Proposed Amendments 10.11 Renumbered as 10.05; elimination of technical legal language or wordiness