In the year 1988 and in each sixth (6th) year thereafter, the Council shall provide for the nonpartisan election of seven (7) electors from the City to constitute a Charter Review Commission. No employee, elected official or appointed official, including any member of any Board or Commission of the City, shall be eligible to serve on the Charter Review Commission. Such election shall be held at the regular general election in November of such year. Within the first five (5) days of the month of January following the election, the Mayor shall call to order an organizational meeting of the Charter Review Commission, at which meeting they shall elect a Chairman and other officers. On or before July 5th of that year, the Charter Review Commission shall review this Charter and frame and recommend to the Council any amendments deemed by the Commission to be desirable.
The Council may provide for submission of such proposed amendments to the electors of the City at the next general election in November in the manner provided by law. Not less than thirty (30) days prior to such election the Clerk of the Council shall mail a copy of each proposed amendment to each elector whose name appears upon the poll or registration books of the last general election held in the City.
Each such Charter Review Commission shall cease to function on the day of the next general election in November following its election.
(Amended November 8, 1983; November 5, 2013)