SN&R > Local Stories > Under pressure > 09.10.09:
"So in the spring, the Sacramento Charter Review Committee was formed, to look at a whole suite of possible reforms. Yes, the committee would consider increasing mayoral power and responsibility. But it would also look at other reforms, like the creation of an ethics commission, putting in place a system of instant runoff voting, term limits or a full-time city council.
Now it appears most of those ideas will be off the table, thanks to the mayor and city council’s insistence that a strong-mayor initiative go on the ballot in the next election in June of 2010"
"So in the spring, the Sacramento Charter Review Committee was formed, to look at a whole suite of possible reforms. Yes, the committee would consider increasing mayoral power and responsibility. But it would also look at other reforms, like the creation of an ethics commission, putting in place a system of instant runoff voting, term limits or a full-time city council.
Now it appears most of those ideas will be off the table, thanks to the mayor and city council’s insistence that a strong-mayor initiative go on the ballot in the next election in June of 2010"
