REPORT TO CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE
SUBJECT
Title
Discussion and Action on Outreach and Meeting Dates
Report
BACKGROUND
One of the Charter Review Committee's first steps will be to receive public input on whether the City Charter amendment language should reflect the current, Court ordered six Council district election system and election sequencing, or to examine if there is community support for some other configuration for electing councilmembers by district. Santa Clara voters will continue to elect the Mayor at large.
To gather as much input as possible the Committee should brainstorm ideas of how to best solicit this input.
DISCUSSION
At the June 4, 2019 meeting, the City Council approved the City Clerk's recommendation for a March 2020 primary election work plan to implement voter-approved Measure N. At that time, it was made clear that the March 2020 primary election work plan is aggressive. It requires all public input to be gathered in time for City Council to consider potential ballot measure language at one of its November 2019 meetings.
In advance of the formation of the Committee, four dates, times and locations were identified to meet the March 2020 primary election work plan timeline. At the Special City Council Meeting on July 10, 2019 it was noted by members of the public and City Council that the meetings should rotate, possibly to each of the City's libraries, to try and reach as many residents as possible.
Following the July 10, 2010 Special City Council meeting, staff researched availability at the three City libraries for the remaining three dates and then looked at other availability within that same week. A summary of those findings can be viewed in Attachment 1.
The best sequencing of meetings, based on availability of rooms at the three City libraries, is as follows:
* Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Central Park Library
6:00 PM or later
* Thursday, September 26, 2019
Mission Branch Library
6:00 PM or later
* Thursday,...
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