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Under charter amendment number one, voters are being asked to approve .5% of the city’s estimated real property tax revenues to be deposited into a new Climate Resiliency Fund for the purpose of ...
Los Angeles voters are being asked to make decisions on several charter amendments and ballot measures that would significantly change the way government works. Here is what you need to know.
A 10-person Charter Review Committee met for several months to review a narrowly tailored list of potential amendments. After that, city commissioners decided to place five amendments on the ballot.
"It's not a matter of why now, it's more of a matter of why did it take this long in order to treat all of your employees around the city the same." Who will pay for it?
Now, after a string of corruption scandals, Charter Amendment ER, a measure on the Nov. 5 ballot, would strengthen the Ethics Commission by boosting its budget, increasing penalties for wrongdoing ...
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
Tacoma’s charter, the city’s constitution, comes up for review once every 10 years.
The proposed amendment secured the support of the majority of the provincial governments, though it was opposed by Quebec and Manitoba. The amendment was introduced into the House of Commons on June 7, 1985, but 19 days later the government of Ontario changed hands, and the new Liberal Premier, David Peterson, refused to support the amendment ...