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At such election the ballot shall contain a summary, title and the complete text of the proposed amendment and below the same the phrases "For the Above Amendment" and "Against the Above Amendment" followed by spaces for marking with a cross or a check the phrase desired. The summary of a proposed amendment to the Charter may differ from its title and shall be a clear, concise statement describing the substance of the proposed amendment without argument or prejudice. The City Attorney must review the form of the summary to determine that the summary accurately reflects the text of the proposed amendment.
Subject to review of the City Attorney and approval of a majority of the Council, the City Clerk shall have authority to rearrange, renumber, reletter, capitalize, punctuate and divide provisions of this Charter, and to correct clerical errors and omissions and insert captions in accordance with the meaning and intent of the provisions of this Charter, from time to time, and may delete provisions which have become inoperative or any provision ruled invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction. The City Clerk may substitute any current title of an official or department in lieu of the title originally appearing in the Charter provision, in accordance with the changes of title or duties subsequently made by law.
(Article VI amended at Regular Municipal Election, October 3, 1989, as part of Proposition #1; Article VI amended at Regular Municipal Election, October 6, 2009.)
The Mayor shall formulate the city's operating budget and the biennial capital improvement budget in consultation with the Council. The budgets shall be consistent with this Charter, the city's adopted goals and objectives, city legislation, and the Comprehensive Plan.
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