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Motion approving proposed Charter Amendments for inclusion in the April 3, 1993
General Election.
M92-318
REVISED LIST OF CHARTER PROPOSITIONS
(As Set By City Council on 12-1-92)
PROPOSITION 1. An amendment to provide for annexation of
additional territory adjacent to the City by ordinance.
PROPOSITION 2. An amendment to modify the provisions for
initiative and referendum in order to allow referendum procedures
to cover a disputed portion of an ordinance, to assure at least
sixty days for the circulation of petitions, and to clarify the
application of the referendum procedures.
PROPOSITION 3. An amendment to provide term limitations for the
mayor and council members limiting them to serving four two-year
terms consecutively in each office, or six two-year terms
consecutively in any combination of such offices, to take effect
beginning with terms of office commencing in April 1993.
PROPOSITION 4. An amendment to provide for filing for election to
the city council by the submission of a petition in accordance with
the Texas Election Code.
PROPOSITION 5. An amendment to allow the City Council to adjust
its regular meeting schedule, provided that the City Council is
required to meet in regular session not less often than twice each
month, and to require two readings of ordinances except in cases of
emergency, provided that certain leases shall not be finally acted
upon until the twenty-eighth day after first reading.
PROPOSITION 6. An amendment to modify the provisions for removal
of council members by incorporating the procedures before the
ethics commission and conform them to other provisions of the
charter.
PROPOSITION 7. An amendment to change the term "handicap" to
"disability" and add the terms "age" and "color" to the non-
discrimination provisions of the City Charter in order to conform
such non-discrimination provisions with current federal law.
PROPOSITION 8. An amendment to allow members of the city council
and city boards and commissions to become candidates for any non-
city public office, but providing they will forfeit their positions
in the event they are elected or appointed to the new office.
PROPOSITION 9. An amendment to provide that the debt service
required for bonds approved by the voters in the future will be
subject to the tax rate limitation provided in the Texas
Constitution.
PROPOSITION 10. An amendment to make limited revisions to the
city's authority to grant leases up to sixty years, providing that
leases longer than five years covering submerged lands on the
bayfront must be submitted to a referendum.
PROPOSITION 11. An amendment increasing the annual compensation of
the mayor to $18,000.00.