From the San Juan County Charter Review Commission Outreach Committee
The next meeting of the San Juan County Charter Review Commission (CRC) is on Saturday May 5th at the San Juan Grange from 8:30 am to 2 pm (with a break for lunch). Public input is welcomed and there is time set aside for comments at 9am and again at 12pm (after lunch). The CRC is charged with reviewing the Charter “to determine its adequacy and suitability to the needs of the County.” Proposed changes will be put on the ballot for the public to vote on in November.
This meeting will be a working session in which the CRC will be approving the findings supporting their recommended Charter amendments and discussing how the amendments will appear on the ballot.
The working model of the CRC includes a three-member full-time commission with legislative and administrative authority, a professional County Manager directly responsible to the elected commission, countywide non-partisan elections and maintains the powers of initiative, referendum and mini-initiative. Findings supporting the working-model are available at the CRC website: www.sanjuanco.com/committees/charterreview.
The website also contains documents considered in the review and the schedule of meetings. Members of the public are encouraged to attend the meetings and to contact any member of the Commission to voice their opinions (e-mails sent to crc@sanjuanco.com will be received by all of the CRC members).
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