CHARTER REVISION COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES
JANUARY 6, 2004

The Wethersfield Charter Revision Commission held a meeting on January 6, 2004, in the Town Manager's Conference Room at the Town Hall. The meeting began at 7:10 p.m.

Agenda Item #1: Roll Call

The following individual(s) were present:

The following individual(s) were absent:

Agenda Item #2: Adoption of the December 16, 2003 Charter Revision Commission Meeting Minutes

Commission Member McHugh motioned to adopt the minutes from the December 16, 2003 Charter Revision Commission Meeting. Commission Member Standish seconded. The motion to adopt the minutes passed unanimously, with the exception of Commission Members Camilliere and Roberts in abstention.

Agenda Item #3: General Comments from the Public

Chairperson Munroe recognized the comments Ed Kardas prepared and distributed prior to the meeting. Ed's comments are included below.

CHARTER REVISION COMMISSION: As the Commission prepares to focus on the next phase in identifying candidate revisions for upgrading the 1994 Charter, I'd like to share the following--on the off chance that your exposure to the material has not been recent--as a partial oversight correlating with comments heard at various Commission Meetings. This oversight is a series of excerpts taken from "Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming the Public Sector" by Authors David Osborne and Ted Gaebler. Hopefully, these excerpts prove helpful during your forthcoming deliberations on "what, where and why" 1994 Charter revisions should be proposed by the Commission. - - Edward Kardas/01-04-2004

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A look around: During the data stage of their work, Authors Osborne and Gaebler asked the question: "Which sector would best produce the service?" (of governments when making decisions on how to handle public goods and services; ref., Table at end of message addressing "public, private and volunteer or non-profit sectors"). In the responses from governments across the USA, they found 36-alternatives to the traditional way standard public services might be delivered. And, arbitrarily placed these alternatives in the following three categories:

1. "Traditional: (1) Creating Legal Rules and Sanctions; (2) Regulations or Deregulations; (3) Monitoring and Investigating; (4) Licensing; (5) Tax policy; (6) Grants; (7) Subsides; (8) Loans; (9) Loan guarantees; and (10) Contracting."
2. "Initiative: (11) Franchising; (12) Public-Private Partnerships; (13) Public-Public Partnerships; (14) Quasi-Public Corporations; (15) Public Enterprises; (16) Procurement; (17) Insurance; (18) Rewards; (19) Changing Public Investment Policy; (20) Technical Assistance; (21) Information; (22) Referral; (23) Volunteers; (24) Vouchers; (25) Impact Fees; (26) Catalyzing Nongovernmental Efforts; (27) Convening Nongovernmental Efforts; and (28) Jawboning."
3. "Avant-Garde [forward thinking?]: (29) Seed Money; (30) Equity Investments; (31) Voluntary Associations; (32) Co-production or Self Help; (33) Quid Pro Quos [quick fixes?]; (34) Demand Management; (35) Sale, Exchange, or Use of Property; and (36) Restructuring the Market."

And, they concluded: "many of these methods can be used in combinations."

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Reflectively: Among many other observations Authors Osborne and Gaebler made as a result of the survey--and are envisioned as applying to this Century--are the following:

1. "Today's entrepreneurial leaders know that communities are healthy when families, neighborhoods, schools, volunteers, organizations, and businesses are healthy--and that government's most profound role is to steer these institutions to health."
2. "If government does less, one might ask, is that not a weaker government? Are we talking about undermining the part of the Public Sector? Yet the governments we saw that steered more and rowed less were clearly stronger governments. After all, those who steer the boat have far more power over its destination than those who row it."
3. "Governments that focus on steering actively shaped communities, states and nations. They put more social and economic institutions into motion. Some even do more regulating. Rather than hiring more public employees, they make sure other institutions are delivering services and meeting the community's needs."
4. "In contrast, governments preoccupied with service delivery often abdicated this steering function. Public leaders who get caught on the tax-and-spend treadmill have to work so hard to keep their service system together--running faster and faster just to stay in the same place--that they have no time to think and steer. School boards get so busy negotiating contracts and avoiding layoffs, that they forget about the quality of their schools. Transit directors get so wrapped up in keeping buses running and begging for more subsidies that they never question whether the transit system operation by public employees--still makes sense. Federal leaders get so preoccupied with the ever-rising cost of Medicare and Medicaid that they ignore the overall dynamics of our health care system."
5. "The ability to steer is particularly important today, with the emergence of a global economy. Most people understand the impact global competition has had on American industry. They know about the collapse of the steel industry, the massive layoff at auto plants. [No less, the corruption experienced in financial institutions and stock corporations as well as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in the 21st Century.] But they don't understand the impact global competition has had on government. Stop and think about it for a moment, and it becomes obvious."
6. "If corporations are to succeed in today's super-competitive global market, they need the highest quality 'inputs' they can get--the most knowledgeable workers, the most groundbreaking research, the cheapest capital, the best infrastructure. This makes government's various roles as educator, trainer, research funder, regulator, rule setter, and infrastructure operator far more important than 30-years ago [or since the major overhaul of the Charter in 1954]."
7. "In the 1980s, it suddenly dawned on business and government leaders that our economy would suffer unless we improved our schools, upgraded our training systems, and got control of our health care costs. To do such things, however, we have to force change on some of the most powerful interest groups in the country--teachers, principals, unions, doctors, and hospitals. We are experiencing exactly the same shock monopolistic industries like auto and airlines experienced when thrust into competitive environments. Suddenly there is enormous pressure for change, and leaders have to enforce the general interest over the special interests who want to preserve the status quo."
8. "When combined with voters' refusal to pay higher taxes--in part because global competition is also driving the average standard of living down--this new pressure demands very different behavior by government. Suddenly there is less money for government--for 'doing' things, delivering services. But there is more demand for governance--for 'leading' society, convincing its various interest groups to embrace common goals and strategies. This is yet another reason why our visionary public leaders now concentrate more on catalyzing and facilitating change than on delivering services--why they provide less government, but more governance."
9. "In today's world, public institutions also need the flexibility to respond to complex and rapidly changing conditions [especially since September 11, 2001]. This is difficult if policy makers can use only one method--services produced by their own bureaucracy. It is virtually impossible if their employees cannot be transferred when needs change, moved into the employment of nongovernmental organizations when they can do a better job, or fired for poor performance. Bureaucratic governments can do none of these things easily, thanks to their civil service regulations and tenure systems. In effect, they are captive of sole-source, monopoly suppliers: their own employees. (If you doubt this is really the norm, ask yourself why anything else is called 'alternative service delivery.') No business would long tolerate such a situation."
10. "Monopoly suppliers become a problem as soon as policy makers decide to change their strategy."
11. "As a result, entrepreneurial governments have begun to shift to systems that separate policy decisions (steering) from service delivery (rowing). [Peter] Drucker [the business management guru] long ago noted that successful organizations separate 'top management to concentrate on decision making and direction.' Operations', Drucker said, should be run by separate staffs, 'each with its own mission and goals, and with its own sphere of action and autonomy.' Otherwise, managers will be distracted by operational tasks and basic steering decisions will not get made."
12. "Steering requires people who see the entire universe of issues and possibilities and can balance competing demands for resources. Rowing requires people who focus intently on one mission and perform it well. Steering organizations need to find the best method to achieve their goals. Rowing organizations tend to defend 'their' methods at all costs."
13. "Entrepreneurial governments increasingly divest rowing from steering. This leaves 'governmental operations basically as a skilled buyer, leveraging the various producers in ways that will accomplish its policy objectives.' Government agencies remain as service producers in many cases--although they often have to compete with the private producers for that privilege. But these public service producers are separate from the policy management organization, and 'in-house production' is only 'one of the available alternatives.'"
14. "Freeing policy managers to shop around for most effective and efficient service providers helps them squeeze more bang out of every buck. It allows them to use competition between service providers. It preserves maximum flexibility to respond to changing circumstances. And it helps them insist on accountability for quality performance: contractors know they can be let go if their quality sags; civil servant known they cannot."
15. "Contracting with private vendors 'is cheaper, more efficient, more authentic, more flexible, more adaptive. Contracts are rewritten every year. You can change. You cannot change with state [or municipal] employees who have all sorts of vested rights and privileges.'"
16. "Finally, steering organizations that shop around can provide more comprehensive solutions, attacking the roots of the problem. They can define the problem--whether it is drug use, crime, or poor performance in school--in its entirety; then use many different organizations to attack it. They can bring all the stakeholders into the policy process, thus ensuring that all points of view are heard and all significant actors are motivated to take part in the solution."
17. "In contrast, governments that put steering and rowing within the same organization limit themselves to relatively narrow strategies. Their line of attack is defined by programs, not problems."

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Comparatively: Authors Osborne and Gaebler identified the strengthens and weaknesses of the Public, Private and Volunteer or Non-Profit Sectors in providing services, as show in the table below.

TABLE OF TASKS BEST SUITED TO EACH SECTOR

Task best suited to each sector Key: E = Effective; I = Ineffective; D = Depends on Content	Public	Private	Volunteer or Non-Profit
Public Sector
Public management	E	I	D
Regulation	E	I	D
Enforcement of equity	E	I	E
Prevention of discrimination	E	D	D
Prevention of exploitation	E	I	E
Promotion of social cohesion	E	I	E
Private Sector
Economic tasks	I	E	D
Investment tasks	I	E	D
Profit generation	I	E	I
Promotion of self-sufficiency	I	E	D
Volunteer or Non-Profit Sector
Social tasks	D	I	E
Tasks that require volunteer labor	D	I	E
Tasks that generate little profit	D	I	E
Promotion of individual responsibility	I	D	E
Promotion of community	D	I	E
Promotion of commitment to welfare of others	D	I	E

Catalytically: David Burnham in 1907 said: "Make no little plans; they make no magic to stir the blood, and probably themselves will not be realized. Make a big plan; aim high in hope and work, remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency."

Ek/01-04-2004

Agenda Item #4: Review of Wethersfield Town Charter - Chapter I, II and Chapter III Sections 301-312

The following includes the original text from the 1994 Charter with any additions/deletions as voted upon by the Commission Members.

Chapter I        Incorporation and Powers

Sec 101           Incorporation

The electors of the State of Connecticut, dwelling within the territorial limits of the Town of Wethersfield, as the same now or may hereafter be established by law, shall continue forever hereafter to be a body politic and corporate, by the name of The "Town of Wethersfield," hereinafter called the "town"; and, as such, shall have perpetual succession, be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded and of purchasing, receiving, leasing, holding, managing and conveying any estate real or personal.                          

Sec 102           Rights and Obligations

By virtue of this Charter, said town shall be absolutely vested with, possess and enjoy all lands, tenements, hereditament, property and rights, choses in action and estates which at the effective date of this Charter were vested in said town.                                                                                                                           

Sec 103            Powers

There are hereby vested in the town all powers vested therein, or in any officer, board or commission thereof, at the effective date of this Charter by the General Statutes and special acts; and all other powers relevant to the property, government and affairs of the town, whose exercise is not specifically prohibited to towns, by the Constitution and General Statutes of the state. The enumeration of specific powers in this Charter shall not be taken to be a limitation on this general grant of powers but in addition thereto.                                                                    

Commission Member McHugh motioned there be no changes to Chapter I, Section 101-103. Commission Member Roberts seconded. The vote passed unanimously.

Chapter II       Elections

Sec 201           Town Elections

The town election shall take place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in each odd-numbered year.                                                                                                                                                   

Sec 202           Elective Offices

At each town election, there shall be chosen nine (9) members of the Town Council and members of the Board of Education, as hereinafter provided. Two (2) Registrars of Voters shall be elected as provided by the General Statutes.                                                                                                                                            

Sec 203           Terms of Office

The terms of all officers elected at the town election, except members of the Board of Education and Registrars of Voters,shall be two (2) years from the next regularly scheduled meeting following the election in November, fourth Monday in November, in each odd-numbered year. In no case shall the term of any elective officer expire until the election and qualification of his successor.                                                                                      

Vice Chairperson Healy motioned to make the noted changes to Section 203. Commission Member Roberts seconded. Commission Member Camilliere opposed. The motion passed 6 in favor/1 opposed.

Sec 204           Minority representation

At the town election, no political party shall nominate and no elector shall vote for more than six (6) members of the Council. No political party shall nominate and no elector shall vote for more members of the Board of Education than is provided for under the provisions of the General Statutes

Sec 205           Vacancies in elective offices

Vacancies in elective offices, except in the Board of Education, from whatever cause arising, shall be filled by the Council. In filling any vacancy, the Town Council shall select an elector of the same political party as that of the former incumbent, unless the incumbent was not an enrolled member of a political party, in which case a successor shall not be an enrolled member of a political party. Vacancies in the Board of Education shall be filled by the Board of Education for any remaining unexpired portion of a term. In making appointments to fill such a vacancy, the Board of Education shall select an elector of the same political party as that of the former incumbent, unless the incumbent was not an enrolled member of a political party, in which case a successor shall not be an enrolled member of a political party.                                                                                                               

Sec 206           Board of education

There shall be a Board of Education of nine (9) members. Three (3) members shall serve for terms of two (2) years from the next regularly scheduled meeting following the election in November, fourth Monday of November, in each odd-numbered year, and six (6) members shall serve for terms of four (4) years from the next regularly scheduled meeting following the election in November, fourth Monday of November, in the odd-numbered year in which they are elected. Biennially, three (3) members shall be elected for terms of four (4) years, and three (3) members shall be elected for terms of two (2) years.

Commission Member Roberts motioned to make the noted changes to Section 206. Vice Chairperson Healy seconded. Commission Member Camilliere opposed. The motion passed 6 in favor/1 opposed.

Sec 207           Nomination and election procedure

Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, candidates for elective office shall be nominated and all regular and special town elections conducted as provided by the General Statutes of the state for the nomination and election of town officers and Board of Education members, respectively. Whenever under the provisions of this Charter any proposition is to be submitted to the electors, such election or referendum shall be conducted as provided in the General Statutes for the conduct of such elections or referenda. The Council shall have authority to provide by ordinance such regulations concerning nominations and elections, not inconsistent with the General Statutes and the provisions of this Charter, as may be necessary to give effect to the intent of such charter provisions.

Sec 208           Qualifications

All elective officers and, unless otherwise provided by Council, all appointed members of any board, commission or committee shall be electors of the town, and, if any such officer or member, where the Council has not otherwise provided, at any time shall cease to be an elector of the town, that office shall be ipso facto vacated.

Commission Member McHugh motioned to make the noted changes to Section 208. Commission Member Roberts seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Sec 209           Voting districts

There shall be such voting districts as the Town Council may establish.

Chapter III      Council

Sec 301           Powers

The governing body of the town shall be the Council, which shall exercise and perform all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of the town, except as the same may be assigned by this Charter to some other officer, board or agency, which powers shall include, in addition to all other powers, all the powers and duties now or hereafter conferred or imposed upon Town Meetings, Boards of Finance, Boards of Police Commissioners, Boards of Fire Commissioners and Boards of Selectmen, except for the making of voters and related matters, in towns by the General Statutes and in the Town of Wethersfield, in particular, by special acts. The Council may provide by ordinance for the exercise of any of the administrative powers of the former Board of Selectmen not otherwise assigned by this Charter, by the Manager or some other officer, board or agency. The legislative power of the town and final authority concerning the budget and tax rate are vested exclusively in the Council, except as otherwise provided in this Charter. It shall have power, subject to the provisions of this Charter, to create or abolish departments and offices by ordinance. It shall also have power to authorize employment positions, fix the compensation of officers and employees of the town, except employees of the Board of Education, and the charges, if any, to be made for services rendered by the town. It shall further have power to make, alter and repeal ordinances, resolutions, enactments, motions and proclamations and to take such other action not inconsistent with this Charter and the General laws of the state for the execution of the powers vested in the town, as provided in Chapter I of this Charter, for the government of the town and the management of its business and for the preservation of the good order, peace, health and safety of the town and its inhabitants.

The Town Attorney should clean up this section and remove historical references as appropriate.

Sec 302           Composition

The Council shall consist of nine (9) members, who shall be chosen from the town at large, at each town election, for terms of two (2) years from the next regularly scheduled meeting following the election in November fourth Monday in November, in each odd-numbered year.

Commission Member Roberts motioned to make the noted changes to Section 302. Vice Chairperson Healy seconded. Commission Member Camilliere opposed. The motion passed 6 in favor/1 opposed.

Sec 303           Compensation

The members of the Council shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to be reimbursed for their just and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

Sec 304           Organization

Each newly elected Council shall meet for organization in the town hall on the next regularly scheduled meeting following the election in November, at 8:00 p.m. on the fourth Monday in November, in each odd-numbered year. The meeting shall be called to order by the Town Clerk, who shall administer the oath of office to all members, provided that in the absence of the Town Clerk, the meeting shall be called to order and the oath administered by any citizen of Wethersfield authorized by law to administer oaths. The Council shall then proceed to the election of a Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson to serve for the ensuing two (2) years, who may also be known, respectively, as the "Mayor" and the "Deputy Mayor."

Vice Chairperson Healy motioned to make the noted changes to Section 304. Commission Member Roberts seconded. Commission Member Camilliere opposed. The motion passed 6 in favor/1 opposed.

Sec 305           Procedure

The Council shall fix the time and place of its regular meetings and provide by ordinance a method for the calling of special meetings; but no business shall be considered at any special meeting, notice of which as not been included in the call for such meeting. The Council shall determine its own rules of procedure not inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter. The presence of five (5) members shall constitute a quorum; but no ordinance, resolution or vote, except a vote to adjourn or to fix the time and place of its next meeting, shall be adopted by less than five (5) affirmative votes, and the ayes and nays on each vote shall be recorded in the journal. Actions not required to be taken by ordinance, either by this Charter or the General Laws of the state, may be made by resolution, proclamation, motion or other enactment. No action shall be taken or appointment or removal made except in a meeting of the Council open to the public.

Sec 306           Other offices

During the term for which elected, no member of the Council or Board of Education, shall hold any other office, elective or appointive, or employment in or under the town government.

No member of the Council or Board of Education shall hold any compensated appointive office or employment with the Town until one year after the cessation of duties.

Vice Chairperson Healy motioned to make the noted changes to Section 306. Commission Member Standish seconded. Commission Member Camilliere opposed. The motion passed 6 in favor/1 opposed.

Sec 307           Introduction of Ordinances and resolutions

All ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in written form, at any regular or special meeting of Council, either by a member of Council or by the Town Clerk, who shall present those ordinances and resolutions filed with the Town Clerk's office by a member of Council at any time prior to the meeting. Upon introduction, all ordinances and resolutions shall automatically be set for public hearing at the next regular or special meeting of council, subject to the notice requirements being met. The Town clerk shall post in a conspicuous public place designated for the posting of public notices a copy of the proposed ordinance or resolution, and shall make sufficient copies available to the general public. After introduction, the Town Clerk shall post a copy of any proposed ordinance or resolution on the town signpost.

Vice Chairperson Healy motioned to make the noted changes to Section 307. Commission Member Roberts seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Sec 308           Public Hearing and passage of ordinances and resolutions

At least one (1) public hearing, not less than five (5) days' notice of which shall be given by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the town and the Town clerk shall post in a conspicuous public place designated for the posting of public notices a copy of the public hearing notice, by posting on the town signpost, shall be held by the Council before any ordinance or resolution shall be acted upon. Notice of the passage of an ordinance or resolution shall be published once in a newspaper having general circulation in the town, and an ordinance or resolution shall not become effective until ten (10) days after such notice is published. An ordinance or resolution need not be published in full but may be described by title or subject matter. The foregoing provisions of the section shall not apply to emergency ordinances. All ordinances and resolutions, when passed shall be filed with the Town Clerk and recorded in a book kept for that purpose, with sufficient copies made available to the general public.

Commission Member Roberts motioned to make the noted changes to Section 308.  Commission Member Camilliere seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Sec 309           Referendum on ordinances and resolutions

Any ordinance or resolution adopted by the Town Council, with the exception of matters relating to the annual budget, the tax rate, the removal of any person or persons, a special appropriation of less than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) or an emergency ordinance as defined in this chapter, may be reversed by referendum if, during the ten (10) working day period following the adoption, there is filed with the Town Clerk, in respect of such ordinance or resolution, a petition signed by qualified electors of the town, in number equal to at least five percent (5%) of the total number of electors in the town, as determined by the last final voter registration  registry list. The Town Clerk shall certify to the Town Council, within ten (10) working days following receipt of such petition, that sufficient valid signatures are attached to the petition. The ordinance or resolution shall not take effect until the same has been submitted at a special election or referendum, which the council must call, to be held in not less than thirty (30) nor more than forty-five (45) days after the filing of such petition. Following such election or referendum, the ordinance or resolution shall not take effect if a majority voting thereon shall vote in the negative, such majority consisting of at least five percent (5%) of the qualified electors in the town, as determined by the last final voter registration registry list. Otherwise, such ordinance or resolution shall take effect. The submission to the electors provided in this section may be at a regular election or a special election if the same occurs not more than one hundred twenty (120) nor less than sixty (60) days from the certification by the Town Clerk to the Town Council.

Commission Member Roberts motioned to make the noted changes to Section 309. Vice Chairperson Healy seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Sec 310           Emergency ordinances

An emergency ordinance shall be only for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, shall contain an explicit statement of the nature of the emergency and shall be adopted by not less than six (6) affirmative votes in the Council, and in no event, shall the annual budget or any appropriation, except as hereinafter provided, constitute an emergency ordinance. For the purpose of meeting an emergency, as herein defined, or to prevent the breakdown of any essential service rendered by a department, board, commission or agency of the town, the Council, by an affirmative vote of not less than six (6) of its members, may appropriate, notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, a sum not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.).

Commission Member Camilliere motioned to make the noted changes to Section 310. Commission Member McHugh seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Sec 311           Obligatory referendum on bond issues and appropriations in excess of two one hundred thousand dollars

No resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds or making a special appropriation in excess of two one hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) ($100,000.) shall become effective until the same has been approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon at a regular election or a special election or referendum called by the Council for the purpose.

Vice Chairperson Healy motioned to make the noted changes to Section 311. Commission Member McHugh seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Sec 312           Initiative by electors

The electors of the town may, in the manner hereinafter provided, propose and adopt ordinances, except an ordinance or resolution fixing the tax rate. No ordinance so proposed involving any increase in the expenditures of the town beyond those budgeted for the current fiscal year shall take effect until after the adoption of the next annual budget, unless the Council, subject to the limitations hereinbefore set forth, shall make a special appropriation for the purpose. The ordinance shall be proposed by a petition to the Council, requesting its adoption, setting forth the ordinance in full and shall be signed by qualified electors of the town, in number equal to at least five percent (5%) of the total number of electors in the town, as determined by the last final voter registration registry list. The petition shall be filed with the Town Clerk, who shall, within ten (10) days, examine the signatures to the same and determine sufficiency. If the Town Clerk finds that the petition has been signed by the required number of electors, it shall be so certified by the Town Clerk to the Council, at its next regular meeting. The Council, shall, within sixty (60) days after such certification, either adopt the proposed ordinance, after hearing, as provided in this chapter, or submit the same to the electors at a special election or referendum to be held within ninety (90) days from the date of certification by the Town Clerk, provided that if a regular election or a town election is to occur within six (6) months of such certification, but not sooner than sixty (60) days thereof, the ordinance shall be submitted at such election. If a majority of those voting on the proposed ordinance vote in the affirmative, the ordinance shall be adopted. Such majority shall consist of at least ten percent (10%) of the total number of electors, as determined by the last final voter registration registry list. No ordinance which shall have been adopted in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be repealed or amended except by a vote of the electors.

Commission Member Roberts motioned to make the noted changes to Section 312. Vice Chairperson Healy seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Agenda Item #5: Miscellaneous

Chairperson Munroe opted to table the budget referendum discussion until the next scheduled meeting on January 28, 2004. At that meeting the remainder of Chapter III will be discussed (Section 313-314).

Agenda Item #6: Adjournment

Vice Chairperson Healy motioned to adjourn. Commission Member Roberts seconded. The motion was passed unanimously. The meeting adjourned at 9:35.

Respectfully submitted,

Dorcas McHugh
Secretary

Approved as submitted January 28, 2004