2016/06/29 Council Agenda Packet

1 The City Clerk and the codifiers of this Charter are authorized to make necessary corrections to this Charter including,but not limited to,deletion of the use of terms which are masculine or feminine so that such references shall apply to the opposite gender also,unless the context of such charter provision shall require otherwise,the correction of scrivener,clerical and typographical errors, references, Charter numbering, Section/subsection numbers and any references thereto. The City Clerk and the codifiers of this Charter are also authorized to make corrections to this Charter to eliminate out-of-date language such as "hereof,""heretofore,""thereof"and similar terms, and replace them with equivalent,modem language. PROPOSITION#2 Shall Everett City Charter Section 15.9 be changed to allow the City Clerk to make corrections in the Charter to eliminate archaic terminology such as"hereof," "heretofore,""thereof,"and replace such terms with equivalent,modern language? CHARTER CHANGE YES ❑ CHARTER CHANGE NO ❑ Section 5: New Section 15.10. Add a new section 15.10 as follows: Appointments to City boards, commissions and committees should consider factors such as geography, gender, ethnicity and age in an effort to better reflect the City's diversity. PROPOSITION#3 Shall the Everett City Charter be changed to add a new Section 15.10 that states that appointments to City boards,commissions and committees should strive to reflect the makeup of the community in demographic terms such as ethnic diversity, gender, age and geography? CHARTER CHANGE YES ❑ CHARTER CHANGE NO ❑ Section 6: Under Section 16.1 of the Charter, amendments to the Charter proposed under this ordinance that are ratified by a majority of the electors become part of the Charter on the date of the Mayor's proclamation of those ratified amendments. The Mayor's proclamation is deemed to occur on the date of the County certification of the election. 4 5