Tuesday......July 18.......5 PM.....Organizational Meeting
Thursday.....July 27.......5 PM.....Regular Meeting
Monday......July 31......6 PM....Public Input Meeting
Wed..........Aug 2.........1:30 PM.....Presentation by Lunn Tipton, Florida League of Cities
Tuesday......Aug 15........5 PM.....Regular Meeting
Tuesday......Aug 29........5 PM.....Regular Meeting
Tuesday......Sept 12.......5 PM.....Regular Meeting
Tuesday......Sept 26.......5 PM.....Regular Meeting
Tuesday......Oct 3..........5 PM.....Regular Meeting
All regular meetings will have a public input time at the end of the meeting.
We would encourage all interested citizens to attend the July 31 meeting and share your ideas, comments, concerns and opportunities with the committee. Since all meetings are open, you may wish to attend as many as possible.
The basic charge given to this committee is to propose a change (if they choose) to the city charter that would establish an elected mayor. In addition they will look at commissioner salaries and propose a change if they feel one is warranted.
The commission will review the committee recommendations at the end of the process and determine whether to allow citizens to vote on the committee recommendations.
Charter Review Committee members are:
- David Brain
- Diana Hamilton
- Tom Luzier
- Pandora Siebert
- Gretchen Serrie
- Michael Shelton
- Elsie Souza
1 comment:
Elsi Souza elsiesouza@comcast.net
Gretchen Serrie theserries@yahoo.com
David Brain dbrain@highcove.com
Tom Luzier tluzier@dunlapmoran.com
Dear Charter Review Board Members:
When the idea of the Charter Review arose to address the perception that Commissioner Pay was inadequate, I suggested that the commission determine its pay and, then, forever link it to that of the lowest-paid employee(s) in the City.
This would insure future adequacy of Commission remuneration and benefits as well as insure that Commissioners were aware of the impacts of inflation and such on those poorly reimbursed, if most essential, employees treating our waste water (for instance).
If Congress had instituted such a link between its salary (exclusive of their wonderful benefits package) and the Minimum Wage, the latter might now be approaching $9.50/hour*!
We need, always, to keep our leader's aware of the price of a loaf of bread and of the those at the bottom whenever they are looking at the Bottom Line.
I would suggest that you consider making such a recommendation as a condition of any increase on Commission remuneration.
Sincerely,
Charles Senf
Retired General Employee
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