Team,
At Thursday’s meeting, Councilor Prince noted most of our discussions were ultimately resolved with a unanimous or 4-1 vote, he requested we identify the more hotly debated and close 3-2 vote topics. I’ve searched the archive of the Minutes for “3-2” or “2-3” and found the following:
1/28/26 - §9.18 Adding Taxpayer Funding of Non-Profits as allowed by law as an option in the Charter: On a motion by Mr. Owen, seconded by Mr. Douglas, the committee voted 3-2 to add Aubrey Sec. 7.15 to the LV charter as Sec 8.17 (Aird & Harris dissenting). NOTE: This was subsequently renumbered as Sec 9.18 in the final draft.
12/17/26 - §3.01 Extending to 3-year Terms. On a motion by Sec. Owen, seconded by Mr. Harris, the committee voted 3-2 to keep previously recommended 3-year terms and transition plan per the current charter draft. (Aird/Douglas dissenting).
5/7/25 – Old §6.01 Power of initiative. On a motion by Mr. Slaughter, seconded by Chair Aird, the committee voted against 2-3, (Pitts, Harris, and Owen dissenting) recommending revising Section 6.01 to reduce the required petition threshold from 10% to 5%. Note: this is now numbered §7.01 in the re-write.
5/7/25 – Old §6.02 Power of Referendum. On a motion by Mr. Slaughter, seconded by Chair Aird, the committee voted against 2-3, (Pitts, Harris, and Owen dissenting) recommending revising Section 6.02 to reduce the required petition threshold from 15% to 5%. On a further motion by Ms. Pitts, seconded by Mr. Slaughter, the committee voted unanimously to recommend revising Section 6.02 to reduce the required petition threshold from 15% to 10%. Note: this is now numbered §7.02 in the re-write. Ultimately, the committee is recommending that all petitions for referendum, initiatives, bond protests, etc. that had varying petition thresholds in the current charter be standardized at 10%, except for Recall petitions at 5%. There was strong, but non prevailing, opinion that all petition thresholds should be standardized at 5% to empower citizens with a lower hurdle to force action.
4/16/25 – Old §3.17 Publication and Posting of ordinances. On a motion by Mr. Harris, seconded by Ms. Pitts, the committee voted 3-2 (Aird, Slaughter dissenting) to not recommend any revisions to Section 3.17 other than noted Scrivener's corrections. However, this section was moved and edits were accepted without contention in the re-write as §4.02.
3/19/25 - §3.01 Transition Plan to 3-year terms. On a motion by Sec. Owen, seconded by Ms. Pitts, the committee voted 3-2 (Aird/Slaughter dissenting) to revise and refine the transition process to stagger council member terms such that each year, 2 council places will be up for election (2-2-2 cadence) rather than the 3-3-0 cadence produced by the discussion board transition process.
3/19/25 - §3.01 Term Limits - Sec. Owen renewed his motion for the committee to reject recommending term limits for this election, seconded by Ms. Pitts, and passed by 3-2 vote (Aird/Slaughter dissenting). However, with the re-write process and assumption extended terms and term-limits would not need to be voted on as separate ballot propositions, the committee ultimately voted to include term limits without contention in the re-write.
Please do advise in this thread if I missed anything.
At Thursday’s meeting, Councilor Prince noted most of our discussions were ultimately resolved with a unanimous or 4-1 vote, he requested we identify the more hotly debated and close 3-2 vote topics. I’ve searched the archive of the Minutes for “3-2” or “2-3” and found the following:
1/28/26 - §9.18 Adding Taxpayer Funding of Non-Profits as allowed by law as an option in the Charter: On a motion by Mr. Owen, seconded by Mr. Douglas, the committee voted 3-2 to add Aubrey Sec. 7.15 to the LV charter as Sec 8.17 (Aird & Harris dissenting). NOTE: This was subsequently renumbered as Sec 9.18 in the final draft.
12/17/26 - §3.01 Extending to 3-year Terms. On a motion by Sec. Owen, seconded by Mr. Harris, the committee voted 3-2 to keep previously recommended 3-year terms and transition plan per the current charter draft. (Aird/Douglas dissenting).
5/7/25 – Old §6.01 Power of initiative. On a motion by Mr. Slaughter, seconded by Chair Aird, the committee voted against 2-3, (Pitts, Harris, and Owen dissenting) recommending revising Section 6.01 to reduce the required petition threshold from 10% to 5%. Note: this is now numbered §7.01 in the re-write.
5/7/25 – Old §6.02 Power of Referendum. On a motion by Mr. Slaughter, seconded by Chair Aird, the committee voted against 2-3, (Pitts, Harris, and Owen dissenting) recommending revising Section 6.02 to reduce the required petition threshold from 15% to 5%. On a further motion by Ms. Pitts, seconded by Mr. Slaughter, the committee voted unanimously to recommend revising Section 6.02 to reduce the required petition threshold from 15% to 10%. Note: this is now numbered §7.02 in the re-write. Ultimately, the committee is recommending that all petitions for referendum, initiatives, bond protests, etc. that had varying petition thresholds in the current charter be standardized at 10%, except for Recall petitions at 5%. There was strong, but non prevailing, opinion that all petition thresholds should be standardized at 5% to empower citizens with a lower hurdle to force action.
4/16/25 – Old §3.17 Publication and Posting of ordinances. On a motion by Mr. Harris, seconded by Ms. Pitts, the committee voted 3-2 (Aird, Slaughter dissenting) to not recommend any revisions to Section 3.17 other than noted Scrivener's corrections. However, this section was moved and edits were accepted without contention in the re-write as §4.02.
3/19/25 - §3.01 Transition Plan to 3-year terms. On a motion by Sec. Owen, seconded by Ms. Pitts, the committee voted 3-2 (Aird/Slaughter dissenting) to revise and refine the transition process to stagger council member terms such that each year, 2 council places will be up for election (2-2-2 cadence) rather than the 3-3-0 cadence produced by the discussion board transition process.
3/19/25 - §3.01 Term Limits - Sec. Owen renewed his motion for the committee to reject recommending term limits for this election, seconded by Ms. Pitts, and passed by 3-2 vote (Aird/Slaughter dissenting). However, with the re-write process and assumption extended terms and term-limits would not need to be voted on as separate ballot propositions, the committee ultimately voted to include term limits without contention in the re-write.
Please do advise in this thread if I missed anything.