FOUR CHARTER AMENDMENTS SET FOR BURBANK BALLOT.Byline: EUGENE TONG tong 1 tr.v. tonged, tong·ing, tongs To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs. [Back-formation from tongs. Staff Writer BURBANK -- Four measures designed to amend the city's charter will be put before local voters in the April general election. The proposed changes culled from 12 recommendations from the city's Charter Review Committee include doing away with elections for the city clerk In the United States, a City Clerk is an elected or appointed official who is responsible as the official keeper of the municipal records. In some places, the Clerk may be known as the "Village Clerk" or "Town Clerk". and treasurer posts, revising the policy for filling vacant elected offices and lowering the number of votes required to amend the city budget to a majority from four-fifths. The City Council voted 3-1 on Tuesday to place them on the April 10 municipal ballot. Councilwoman Marsha Ramos was absent. Mayor Todd Todd , Sir Alexander Robertus 1907-1997. British chemist. He won a 1957 Nobel Prize for his study of nucleic acids and nucleotide structures. Campbell said the city's founding document authored in the 1920s is outdated out·dat·ed adj. Out-of-date; old-fashioned. outdated Adjective old-fashioned or obsolete Adj. 1. , and the recommendations from the 15-member review committee appointed by the council more than a year ago deserve to be tested by voters. ``The charter review committee came to their own conclusions,'' Campbell said in an interview after the vote. ``I'm going to be voting on this just as everyone else would be in the city of Burbank.'' Councilman David Gordon David Gordon may refer to:
``It's a very simple thing,'' he said in a recent interview before the vote. ``If it isn't broke, don't fix it.'' Committee chairwoman Carolyn Jackson Jackson. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. said there are plenty of oddities The Oddities were a professional wrestling stable in the WWF. History The Jackyl formed the group in 1998 and called them "The Parade of Human Oddities." The group consisted of "freakish" wrestlers, including the masked Golga (formerly Earthquake, whose mask had in the charter that no longer apply to operating a modern city government, including having the council sit with the treasurer in the city vault vault, ceiling over a room, formed in any one of a variety of curved shapes. Nature of Vaults A vault is generally composed of separate units of material, such as bricks, tiles, or blocks of stone, so shaped or cut that when assembled they form a to count the money. ``Times have changed in the last 80 years,'' she said. The panel compared Burbank's charter with those from 12 other Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, cities of similar size that operate under a city manager-led government. Gordon said he does not object to cleaning up outdated language, but the rules mandating an elected city clerk and treasurer should remain, so they are accountable to the public. He also objected to revising how vacancies on the council are filled. The committee recommended that the remaining council members appoint an interim member to serve until the next scheduled election. ``It sets up a system where people would have nonrepresentative government,'' said Gordon, who was elected in January to replace former Councilwoman Stacey Murphy, who resigned after her arrest on drugs and child endangerment charges. ``It's not representing the people.'' But Johnson said both the clerk and treasurer positions should be filled based on an applicant's experience rather than their ability to win an election. As for council vacancies, she said special elections don't give voters enough time to consider the choices, and appointments are already allowed if the council member has less than 18 months left on the term. ``We just want the city to get back to business as soon as possible,'' she said. For more information about the proposed charter changes, go online to www.ci.burbank.ca.us/charterreview/index.htm. eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 |
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