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Orozco, Norma From: Houston, Nicole Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 5:05 PM To: eComment_Forwarding Subject: FW: Input on Proposed Charter Amendments Item 65C Attachments: CCM 7 7 20 65C Charter-Amendment-Excerpts.pdf From: monica Suter[mailto:monicasuter28@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 4:49 PM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org> Subject: Fwd: Input on Proposed Charter Amendments Item 65C Dear Mayor Miguel Pulido-- We see pros/cons with changing the 4 to 5 votes for appropriations. However, overall, it is probably more transparent to change it to 4 because then Council would not be able to approve a contract while not having the votes to officially acknowledge the fiscal impact as occured previously. So, this would help disallow that to reoccur, so please support changing it to 4 for appropriations as well which also avoids the power of one Councilmember holding up a vote where there is otherwise consensus. Overall, we are supportive of the proposed charter amendments in 65C with the exception of the following. As promised, we have been reviewing this --starting sometime back (among all the other several on -going urgent items) and have some comments/input/questions that we respectfully request be considered/clarified: Minor Typos (see attached highlighted excerpts) --Easy Items: 1. Staff Report Page 65C-11 (City Manager) --fix Manager sp. 2. Staff Report Page 65C-15 (City Council) --fix Council sp. bottom 3. Staff Report Page 65C-27 (State or County) --fix or typo toward bottom. Staff Report Page 65C-19 1. Revised Line "8" "Positions Occupied" --is this intended for Consultants who work occasionally on a project/task basis vs. an employee who holds a position? It seems a bit confusing as to what the intent is. Please clarify. 2. Revised Line "9" "Positions... temporary..." Our concern would be that the City has tended to have "temporary positions" for much time, 90 days, 6 months, in lieu of filling budgeted positions. So, we can see pros and cons of deleting the last part of this item.... Also, to build upon the fine work of your tenure as Mayor, the City has lost much institutional knowledge over time. This expertise needs to be passed on to new employees to not lose important brain -drain and expertise where that background is critical to serve Santa Ana's community/stakeholders. 3. Revised Line "10" "Part-time positions or employments", we wanted to understand better what the reason is or goal has been for the deletion of the last part of this line? Depending on reply, we may/may not prefer/support this change.