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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCRC Minutes 1981-08-31 Regular =tip MINUTES OF CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION August 31 , 1981 The Charter Review Commission held a meeting on Monday, August 31 , 1981, at 8 : 00 p.m. , in the Mayor' s Office at City Hall,- with the following members present. Lynn Eignus , Chairman William Kelly Billy Glines Jim Bowman Ruth Henry, Secretary With a quorum present and with Gary Taliaferro absent , the meeting proceeded as follows: Jim Bowman was administered the oath of office since he was absent at the first meeting ,on August 24 , 1981. Mr. Bowman introduced himself to the group and told of his background and length of time in Friendswood. The other members of the Commission gave a brief background of themselves for his benefit. Lynn Eignus reported that the letters requesting input in writing had been mailed to the various boards and commissions as discussed at the first meeting. A letter from Mayor Whittenburg suggested three points for consideration. 1. Districting Council Members 2 . Limiting terms of Council Members 3 . (Section 6 . 02 under A-5 ) Incumbent seeking election must file for the same office or position number presently' serving. If incumbent seeks another office he must first resign. The Mayor proposes to add tha'date -ofhis _filing for office. Page 2 The first topic of discussion was districting Council members . Several Commissioners felt this would be a necessary step toward annexation of Wedgewood. The Commission also decided they would need legal advise on laws governing districting. The Commission feels they need as many pros as cons befor considering the above topic. On the second topic , terms of Council Members, most Commissioners felt terms should not be . limited, but left up to the voters to decide. Several felt their should be some limitation, however, for the purpose of control. They felt the resigning of one office to run for another should allow plenty of time for the vacant position to be filed for instead of holding a special election. The Commission generally agreed with the third proposal but felt that there should be more clarification in the wording. OA Dale Whittenburg President (713)482-2413 u"OU/91f/IgA P.O. Box 377 • Friendswood, Texas 77546 August 24, 1981 Linn C. Eignus Chairman, Charter Review Committee P. O. Box 392 Friendswood, Texas 77546 Dear Mr. Chairman: Congratulations to ydu and your fellow members of the Charter Review Committee on your appointments. There are a couple of items that I would like to address to the committee. Districting Council Members: I feel very strongly that areas could be better represented in the future by district members especially since our population and square miles keeps growing. I have no particular magic number of how many districts that I would recommend being set up, nor do I have any really strong rational behind my recommendation except better representation to the citizens. Limit Terms of Council Members: 1. I feel very strongly that we should limit the terms of council members so that we can not allow any one particular member to dominate our council by numerous years of the same old programs. Hopefully, by limiting the terms we could 'have fresh ideas to do business with. This, as you know, was supported by the --)as' Charter Re ie1 Cormittee. My suggestion would b . t1 ree 2—ear con: ecu+ ive terms. I would not b > s1-ror3ly oppcsed to three 3-year consecutive to .ms as I al l cor fidf !nt c f the ability of the fi ,e r en appointr d a, ; ou: comm- issioners to recommend w1 at is '.)est for our city. r Dale Whittenburg President (713)482-2413 �r7Cl/�?^a� LdIG 1QOO / P.O. Box 377 • Friendswood, Texas 77546 r: Linn C. Eignus August 24, 1981 Page 2 2. Another item I would like to address is found in section 6.02 under A-5, "An incumbent seeking election must file- for the same office or position number presently serving. If incum- bent seeks another office or position number, he must first resign. " I think that should read, "he must first resign effective the date of his filing for his office. " This item seems to have caused problems in the past. I, suspect that I will have more items to submit as time goes on. - - R ectively, Dale Whittenburg DW/dlw �J cc: Mr. Billy Glines Mr. Jim Bowman Mr.. Gary Taliaferro Mr. William Kelly V Ralph Lowe P' 1605 S. Friendswood Drive Friendswood JTom Lay 911 Layfair Place Friendswood V Vickie Black 407 Brandywine Friendswood vR. J. Blanken 309 Leisure Lane Friendswood ✓ilton Windler 516 Fairdale Friendswood /Richard Haken vvv 804 Lexington Friendswood ,/Gilliam Patton 314 Morningside Friendswood Benny Baker /Paul Maaz 401 Fallingleaf Friendswood