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Monday, August 19, 2013

Ballot Language for Charter Amendments for the November City Election as posted on Oakland County Elections web site.



PROPOSALS
GENERAL ELECTION – NOVEMBER 5, 2013
CITY OF BLOOMFIELD HILLS

CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSITION A
CHARTER III, SECTION 4 AND CHAPTER IV, SECTION 7

The proposed amendment amends Chapter III, Section 4, and Chapter IV, Section 7, to acknowledge that city commissioners are elected to 2 year terms at the odd-year November election commencing with 3 commissioners being elected at this 2013 election and all 5 commissioners being elected in November 2015.
Shift from annual May elections to the November odd-year general election was made last fall by the statutorily-authorized Resolution 22-2012 of the Commission.
The amendment also provides that a commissioner’s term of office commences on the first Tuesday after the commissioner’s election.
Shall this amendment be adopted?


CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSITION B
CHAPTER III, SECTION 5
Chapter III, Section 5 [Organizational meetings; election of mayor and mayor pro tem] provides for an organizational meeting of the city commission. At this meeting the commissioners elect from among themselves a mayor and mayor pro tem on the first Monday after each city election. It is proposed that the day for
this organizational meeting be changed, from the first Monday after each city election, to a regularly scheduled meeting in November of each year.
Shall this amendment be adopted?


CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSITION C
CHAPTER IV, SECTION 4
Chapter IV, Section 4 [Conflicts of Interest] provides that no member of the city commission shall vote for any contract or expenditure of any city money if he or she
is financially interested in the proceeds of the contract or expenditure. It is proposed that a second sentence be added to this section to authorize the commission
to implement this section by adopting a resolution or ordinance.
Shall this amendment be adopted?

CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSITION D
CHAPTER VII, SECTION 9
The proposed amendment to Chapter VII, Section 9, [Annual Budget] changes the deadline date for the commission to prepare an annual budget, from the 10th
day in May, to the second Tuesday in May.
Shall this amendment be adopted?




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