Charter Election Propositions

Shall the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be amended in various sections to remove specific state law references and instead require that the City Council shall act in accordance with state law?

Shall Section 2.10 “Meetings of the City Council” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be amended to allow special meetings of the City Council to be called by three (3) councilmembers instead of four (4) as currently stated?

Shall Section 11.23 “Rearrangement and numbering” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be renamed to “Non-substantive changes” and amended to provide ongoing authority for the City Council, by ordinance, to make non-substantive changes for clarity, change terms of gender to gender-neutral terms and remove Section 11.18 “Gender clause?”

Shall Section 11.15 “Publicity of records” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be deleted because the availability of records to the public is already governed by the Texas Public Information Act?

Shall the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be amended to require that persons who sign a petition for candidacy for office or a ballot measure must include either their date of birth or voter registration number, as required by the Texas Election Code?

Shall Section 8.03 “Nominations” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be amended to increase to 25, the minimum number of signatures for a petition to place a candidate in nomination for a City Council office in accordance with state law?

Shall Section 11.24 “Town depository” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be deleted because the selection and designation of a depository for the Town is exclusively governed by state law?

Shall Section 2.08(f) “Powers of the City Council” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be amended to state that no one may serve concurrently on the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Zoning Adjustment?

Shall Section 5.11(1) “Bonds, warrants and other evidences of indebtedness” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be renamed to “Bonds, warrants and other debt matters?”

Shall Section 2.04 “Compensation” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be amended to remove the requirement that the City Council approve, at a public meeting, any reimbursements to councilmembers for actual expenses incurred in the performance of official duties? Expenditures would still be approved by the City Council during the budgeting process and records would be available in accordance with open records requirements.

Shall Section 11.26 “Disaster clause” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be amended to remove the references to the “local Chamber of Commerce” and “Board of Trustees of the local school district” and instead direct that the Dallas County Judge appoint a commission, which shall include all surviving members of the City Council, in the event of a disaster when a quorum of the City Council cannot be assembled because of death or injury?

Shall Section 8.06 “Conducting and canvassing elections” of the Charter of the Town of Addison, Texas, be amended to clarify that the first meeting of the City Council following a municipal election shall be the meeting to canvass the election and declare the results as provided by state law?