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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