Date: Fri 20-Oct-1995

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

Quick Words:

charter-revision-council

Full Text:

Council Seeks Volunteers For Charter Revision Panel

The Legislative Council is seeking residents interested in serving on the

town's planned Charter Revision Commission, an agency which will make

recommendations on improving the structure of town government.

Members of the council's charter revision committee met October 18 and named

council member Melissa Pilchard head of the temporary panel that will shepherd

the creation of a Charter Revision Commission.

Committee members ask that people interested in developing structural changes

for the municipal government submit their resumes for consideration by the

council. Those resumes may be mailed to: The Newtown Legislative Council,

Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street, Newtown, CT, 06470. The resumes are due by

November 3. The full Legislative Council will select the membership of the

Charter Revision Commission.

The commission will develop a set of recommendations on charter improvements

for submission to the council. The commission can have between 5 and 15

members. No more than a bare majority of its membership may be from any single

political party. No more than one third of its membership can be town

officials.

Commission members are unsalaried. Their work is expected to take many months

to complete.