Steering committee places editorial charter reorganizations — including moving police and fire entries — on consent agenda

The steering committee reviewed a group of proposed editorial changes and agreed to place them on the meeting’s consent agenda after no members objected.

Items put forward for the consent agenda include reorganizing the charter by article to improve clarity, moving the police and fire departments into the same article used for other departments (with a notation that the change not conflict with union contracts), updating glossary terms and definitions, revising mayoral-powers formatting, retitling deputy-mayor roles, and moving certain procedural items such as sick-leave language into the municipal code.

Commissioners described these edits as primarily editorial and intended to make the charter more readable and internally consistent; the committee will forward the items to staff to include in the packet for the full commission and to the city attorney for drafting confirmation.