This page lists meetings where a speaker used any of these words: charter, charter commission, charter revision, referendum, weighted vote, weighted voting, election, ballot. Search this topic to filter by body or year, or search the exact word only.
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- 18:38… mayor's actions uh in extending the contract or amending the contract unilaterally, uh the council, it seems to me, it's clear under the charter has the final authorization on contracts. The mayor may propose the council authorizes. It would have been perfectly all right for the mayor to come to you and say, "I would like you to amend the resolution on the basis of the, you …
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/262 passages12:01Will will Ken will council council line be used if Ken's tapped for um charter revision? Uh well, I I'm not sure when charter I think we didn't budget anything on the charter uh commission because it got tabled. Mhm. Um so I have to see if that's going to move forward. Okay. Um I think if we need to we you know later in the process I can see if we want to revisit that. Um, …
- 17:26… interest of fairness and transparency and maintaining the integrity of the process, uh the vote will be conducted again and this time the ballots will be distributed and controlled directly by the office. So in other words, we're doing check off uh through the management office to ensure that each resident has a equal opportunity to participate and that the outcome accurately …
- 57:21… I am I did tell him that at least as it pertains to this to the signage and to the um stairs. The fact that it does serve our uh board of elections and obviously that is a polling location that we do not want to stop our activity as far as putting the signage up or the stairs because that would not only safety but it's it's a board of elections. It's a polling place. We do not …
- 2026-09-15HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 9/15/2026 Board of Education Meeting10 passages longer discussion1:00:47No, and then so whoever, and then so the person in, so there'll be three seats up for election in May. Matt and Amanda both need to both have expiring terms. There'll be the third seat. Whoever comes in third in that election will receive a one-year term, which is the remainder of Maureen's term.
- 0:06… the full board meeting. So it is 2:03 p.m. call to order the IDA audit committee agenda. Um we have a brief agenda here. Uh the first is election of the audit committee chair and for those uh just for awareness the members are myself, Ron Bogle and Vicki Dascaludi. Uh can I get a nomination for audit committee chair?
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- 2025-04-01*Other / CommitteePublic Hearing Petition to Amend the City Charter41 passages longer discussion1:03:47current version of the charter are also expressing interest in moving it forward and putting it on the ballot. Um, you know, I understand how voting works and how elections work and how, you know, referendums work, but I find it just concerning that the same group who admits the shortcomings of their own version are also willing to take it to the people as it is. Um, I don't …
- 2022-05-11Council Legal CommitteeLegal Committee Meeting - May 11, 202237 passages longer discussion29:26city look at the election districts and the ward boundaries and then essentially do an overlay over that and see where can come up with essentially new districts that will not create an excessively small election district because you don't want that you want your election district to have you know three or four hundred people as a minimum in it because as ken explained it if …
- 1:49:07two and the other one would come in so you'd have an election every year they wouldn't have the same two-year terms that would overlap it calls for annual elections however there are no procedures in your current bylaws for tenant elections um they're required by state law but there are no procedures so just as a very uh you know matter-of-fact statement we're gonna have two …
- 2026-01-28County Finance CommitteeFinance || Space Utilization || January 28, 202621 passages longer discussion38:42… floor as well as the various departments. So total square footage for the building 32,000 square feet. But then when you look at board of election, board of election has several locations. There's storage areas. Um there's also areas down in the basement that is being utilized. So if we were going to relocate other departments that are currently within 401 down onto the first …
- 1:03:14A third message of revising a city charter is by direct action of the legislative body under its local law power as provided in section 10 of the municipal home rule law. Although this option is infrequently used, it is possible for a city council, for example, to proceed directly to revise the city charter in this manner rather than by creating an independent charter …
- 2025-08-19HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 8/19/2025 Board of Education Meeting15 passages longer discussion1:48:03Um we negotiated a uh you know larger earnest payment in order to compensate us uh for holding that election off cycle because we were not ready to do it in May. Um and given the 90 days uh the election if we're using the election to fill the vacancy would need to be held by November 3rd. um which is slightly complicated by the fact that normal election day is November 4th. Um …
- 1:26:11… be only one elect Lieutenant commissioner per household change Section 3 to voting residents will come to the office to receive their ballots at least at least 10 days before the election they will complete their ballot privately and place their ballot in the secure Ballot Box in the office additionally any Resident was not able to come to the office doing regular business …
- 47:50Actually, I also wanted to make a comment about the general process of charter revision. We can come back to that. Right now, I would like to um uh consider the resolution that is currently before us which relates to um the contract work for the sidewalk improvement district project.
- 2024-11-19HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 11/19/2024 Board of Education Meeting13 passages longer discussion28:15… segments I talked about right we want to feel what we're going to do to feel that way what action steps are we going to take and when the charter gets broken because we're human and we're inevitable and we make mistakes right inevitably what are we going to do and so you can see the evolution of even our building learning the tools of ruler because last year when we made the …
- 3:27… it at like 3 47. so just uh while margaret is pulling that up vicki i know you're on um but basically there's uh one two three four five charter amendments and one code amendment um all basically centered most are like notice one is notice of election result uh one is notice of special meeting make appointments one is noted uh new bonds may be required one is notification of …
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- 18:38… mayor's actions uh in extending the contract or amending the contract unilaterally, uh the council, it seems to me, it's clear under the charter has the final authorization on contracts. The mayor may propose the council authorizes. It would have been perfectly all right for the mayor to come to you and say, "I would like you to amend the resolution on the basis of the, you …
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/262 passages12:01Will will Ken will council council line be used if Ken's tapped for um charter revision? Uh well, I I'm not sure when charter I think we didn't budget anything on the charter uh commission because it got tabled. Mhm. Um so I have to see if that's going to move forward. Okay. Um I think if we need to we you know later in the process I can see if we want to revisit that. Um, …
- 17:26… interest of fairness and transparency and maintaining the integrity of the process, uh the vote will be conducted again and this time the ballots will be distributed and controlled directly by the office. So in other words, we're doing check off uh through the management office to ensure that each resident has a equal opportunity to participate and that the outcome accurately …
- 57:21… I am I did tell him that at least as it pertains to this to the signage and to the um stairs. The fact that it does serve our uh board of elections and obviously that is a polling location that we do not want to stop our activity as far as putting the signage up or the stairs because that would not only safety but it's it's a board of elections. It's a polling place. We do not …
- 2026-09-15HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 9/15/2026 Board of Education Meeting10 passages longer discussion1:00:47No, and then so whoever, and then so the person in, so there'll be three seats up for election in May. Matt and Amanda both need to both have expiring terms. There'll be the third seat. Whoever comes in third in that election will receive a one-year term, which is the remainder of Maureen's term.
- 0:06… the full board meeting. So it is 2:03 p.m. call to order the IDA audit committee agenda. Um we have a brief agenda here. Uh the first is election of the audit committee chair and for those uh just for awareness the members are myself, Ron Bogle and Vicki Dascaludi. Uh can I get a nomination for audit committee chair?
- 6:14or maybe the uh charter group.
- 47:50Actually, I also wanted to make a comment about the general process of charter revision. We can come back to that. Right now, I would like to um uh consider the resolution that is currently before us which relates to um the contract work for the sidewalk improvement district project.
- 16:08… Um so, we are want to thank Chairman, all the supervisors, because we are moving to 401 State Street as well, where the Board of Elections was. So, we will have three physical locations for service provision for workforce services in the twin counties. We are at the Green County Municipal Building and we're hoping to get bigger space there. We have are still co-located with …
- 55:34Thank you. um buildings 11 Warren Street. So, all departments um all departments have moved into uh 11 Warren. So, again, board of elections, probation, public defender, and conflict defenders. Um we're working to address a few minor items that been identified during the move and we're still just awaiting the caratops and cabinets for the kitchenet areas associated with …
- 30:52… all of our facilities crews, NYS crews. And the last two, in case you haven't noticed, we moved probation, public defender, and board of elections office and board of elections to the new 11 Warren Street office. This was a phenomenal project. If you asked me, this started years ago. When we purchased the building, we reached out to all those department heads and said, "What …
- 41:29… that we're trying to do an administrative change here to move permitting over to the bureau in the police department. However, our beloved charter uh explicitly defines the parking a parking uh violation bureau whose duties are limited to collecting fines. So, we have to update uh the I believe it's in the charter. We have to update that to establish this broader parking thing …
- 19:59Is there anything else on the council agenda or the charter? I'm not sure I'm not sure how that works cuz it's never works not in the charter. Well, it says that the council can reduce the budget. It just can't increase it, but it doesn't necessarily say it's not
- 1:03:14A third message of revising a city charter is by direct action of the legislative body under its local law power as provided in section 10 of the municipal home rule law. Although this option is infrequently used, it is possible for a city council, for example, to proceed directly to revise the city charter in this manner rather than by creating an independent charter …
- 43:39… I think also, you know, there's if we're going to clean up if we're going to clean up some things that were were not done when the charter was created and you should also look at a few districts that that we that and I think there's very compelling evidence about what we have done over the last 15 20 years and what we could do well like we could look at worth look at we can …
- 51:26Um, housing is the number one problem in the world on any ballot. Uh, it's either number one or number two along with the economy. uh Hudson has an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people and be an example of university. Thank you.
- 1:02:47… from section 41.1. Uh no sale or lease um of sale or any franchise uh shall be made or authorized except by voted supporters of the weighted vote. This was back when we had a weighted vote. Now we carry a weighted one.
- 1:14:34um and once that takes place, we anticipate board of election would then be moved the following week. Okay. um just because taking on both or all all of those departments would be a little um problematic. So we've been actually having uh weekly meetings with the department heads just to try and coordinate that to the best ability that we can. So things so far looking up. Uh …
- 30:23… to it, but this is a rental assistance program that we received the grant for. In order to administer, we have to have a Tennessee election plan and affirmative marketing plan in place. Um, again, this is something that was supposed to be reintroduced so we can be have begun uh housing by now. Um, but uh we will move forward nonetheless.
- 29:54… funded like the library gets funded to a certain amount every year no questions asked that goes in there can't be raised without going to referendum can't be voted without going to referendum I'm not saying a referendum, but I don't know if there's a tool or something where you just say that these are certain things that that you know we believe need to be funded outside of …
- 23:45So maybe even clue people in cuz I had been a law I brought a lawsuit recently on the election election stuff
- 2026-07-07HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 7/7/2026 Board of Education Meeting2 passages4:02Okay. believe it or not, I have had one elections. Um what that has made me do book around all the parameters that are for officers in an organization such as So I want to read to you uh some of understand the operating systems here.
- 2:42I think that that vehicle that was leased, I think they're moving also somewhere into board of elections or something. Some something's going on.
- 2026-06-17County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || June 17, 20265 passages longer discussion1:11:04the fiber communications provider prior to scheduling a movein date for various departments. Um the engineering uh facilities and board of elections department do have have been coordinating the moving of election machines directly into 11 War Street after the June 23rd primary. Um I want to remind folks that we had a uh uh you know a public meeting on the facade of that. If …
- 2026-06-16HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 6/16/2026 Board of Education Meeting9 passages longer discussion1:54:09Elections can be very contentious. Not every election, school board elections, public elections, national elections can be contentious and we know the one thing they should never be contentious about is how they were run. So um and I'm very appreciative of all those people who contributed giving us feedback after uh we finished um what was a very difficult you know all all …
- 37:59I just don't understand that we don't do it this year, which is not a poor election year for him because right now it's going to be the next guy or himself in his first year and every year is a it's an equality equity issue where the city is being very unfair being sued by more people.
- 52:28… they are going on the information given by the city. Um they just are not being held to it uh because it's a few there are a few chart charter violations in the agreements that we have between them in the city. So they were they had a scooter business in town now under a vendor permit.
- 2026-05-20County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || May 20, 20263 passages longer discussion1:19:37Board of Elections being last just because of the current election cycle as far as the primaries that are taking place, and we recognize we don't want to disrupt that in any way, shape, or form. Um so, they would probably be the last ones, and that would probably be in the July time frame. One of the big items we're still waiting for before we can meet some of these uh time …
- 18:00… for this project, we identified nine active bills that are in the Senate and Assembly right now on electric rates or policies. It's election season. We're going to be seeing a lot of our electeds over the next 10 or 12 weeks, so it's an opportunity to get a word in edgewise about uh these issues. And two of them are tied to the budget, so we'll know pretty quickly whether or …
- 23:34I have one point of clarification. We will not physically be bringing ballots back here. The ballots will stay locked in the machine. The only thing we'll be bringing back is the tape that is signed by the three poll workers and the document of their hand count of anything that could not go through the machine, such as the absentee ballots or What's the other one called? …
- 1:49:40house so The next two items. Um, Logan, this is we have a local law repealing the charter provisions for governing, we've been looking at this now for about what feels like a lifetime. Uh, this is local law repealing charter provisions governing video conferencing. We need this uh in order to make this. We we've been clarified rules for video conferencing, but we are going to …
- 0:47… a little background here, as you're aware, uh, the county purchased 11 Street and is moving offices into that building. Um the uh board of elections will be there for the fall elections. Um the uh public defender is moving in there and uh blanking on what the third office is.
- 2026-05-05HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 5/5/2026 Board of Education Meeting4 passages longer discussion1:31:21Oh, yeah. Go for it. Sorry, there are three board members up for election for two seats on the board. And you see their names up there. Uh, Mike, who is an incumbent, he joined in the middle of a term. So, this is a little unusual, but during this election process, the first highest vote getter of the two winners will immediately be appointed for a May 20th start.
- 1:06:24Hello. Uh my comment is in relation to the just made remarks about the charter revision commission. Uh before any process of charter revision gets underway and certainly before expressions of interest are solicited for service on any charter vision commission. The council should become familiar with the options for setting up such a commission. the options for the commission's …
- 2026-04-21HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 4/21/2026 Board of Education Meeting10 passages longer discussion1:43:35Ideally the machine works perfectly and it also picks up write-in ballot suggestions and it is creating a tally of those as well. The polling places also have the write-in ballots the the I'm sorry the mail-in ballots the absentee ballots that they also have to tally on the night of the vote. So it's more complex than just printing out the tape from the machine. There are a …
- 1:34:56… in that there is language uh in in the code that speaks to not um not increasing or intensifying uh you know such use effect of the state charter shall not uh nor shall any external evidence of such use be increased by any means whatsoever. So this is basically looking at um the the uh resolution that we had, the local law amendment that we had last year was relying on uh …
- 0:24… in new business, which is that I am in the process of reaching out to community members and getting information and input on starting a charter commission.
- 2026-04-14HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 4/14/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage2:08:30… committee meeting at 5:00 p.m. in the district office conference room. Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 is the budget vote and board member election from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. And followed by a board meeting at 8:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
- 14:16well if there's no further questions on the financial statements like what we refer to as the board report. This is a required communication to those chartered governance. Uh this is just a standard required required communication that needs to be presented. A lot a lot of the wording from page one right on through to about one is standard. Page three is standard. Page four is …
- 19:24Jim there I I think we had our draft minutes and then um the charter Was that all for this meeting?