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Draft Charter Amendments (2022) <br />is convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, the office shall immediately <br />become vacant and be so declared by the city council. <br />A person who has served four (4) consecutive terms of two (2) years each, <br />commencing with the term entered as a result of the November 2012 election, shall <br />be eligible for appointment, nomination for or election to the office of mayor no <br />sooner than for a term beginning eight (8) years after completion of the mayor's <br />fourth consecutive full term. This eight year "cooling off" period shall not apply to <br />eligibility for appointment, nomination for or election to a council member office; <br />provided, however, that any person who has served twenty (20) consecutive years <br />in office, as both a council member and mayor, regardless of the order in which <br />they served, shall not be eligible for appointment, nomination or election as a <br />council member or as mayor, no sooner than for a term beginning eight (8) years <br />after completion of the council member or mayoral term. <br />Short or partial terms shall not be considered in determining eligibility for <br />appointment nomination or election as mayor. For purposes of this Charter, short <br />or partial terms shall only be those where the mayor was elected or appointed to <br />replace another mayor who left office before the latter official's term expired. Any <br />mayor who assumed office at the beginning of a term and left office early or before <br />term expires for any reason whatsoever shall be deemed to have served a full term. <br />The provisions of this section related to short or partial terms is deemed to be <br />declaratory of existing law. <br /> <br />Sec. 607. Same—Further consideration and adoption. <br />After the conclusion of the public hearing, the City Council may further <br />consider the proposed budget and make any revisions thereof that it may deem <br />advisable. On or before the thirty-first (31st) day of July the City Council shall <br />adopt the budget with revisions, if any, by the affirmative votes of at least two- <br />thirds a majority of its members. Upon final adoption, the budget shall be in effect <br />for the ensuing fiscal year. Between the first (1st) day of July and any subsequent <br />date on which the budget, is adopted the several offices, departments and divisions <br />shall be authorized to expend, each calendar month subject to the controls <br />established in other sections of this charter, amounts of money equal to the <br />expenditures of each such office, department or division during the preceding June. <br />The budget adopted by the City Council shall provide for the support of public <br />recreation programs at least the equivalent of six cents (6) on each one hundred <br />dollars ($100) of the assessed value of taxable property in the City on the legal <br />assessment date for the previous fiscal year.