Sentence examples for a charter amendment from inspiring English sources

A charter amendment is not about two different substantive acts.

The third fix is to reform how the speaker is selected, and it would require a charter amendment.

But remember that the S.E.C. has only specifically come out against two separate items bundled together – a charter amendment and a merger.

The only county that has already switched is Sarasota, where voters last year approved a charter amendment requiring a paper-ballot system.

Such a consensus measure would have a strong chance of trumping the widely anticipated effort by Jeff Adachi, the city's public defender, to gain voter approval for a charter amendment requiring deeper sacrifices by city workers.

New Yorkers voted on Tuesday in favor of a charter amendment backed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg that calls for holding a special election sooner if a mayor becomes unable to serve.

Their absence would make it even more difficult to win the two-thirds vote of the UN's 191 members required for any charter amendment.

Political comebacks are something of a family speciality, and there is a pretty good chance that at some time during the campaign Mr Giuliani will give her the opportunity to stage one.The somewhat irascible mayor has taken a few hits himself recently most notably on a city charter amendment that was defeated in a ballot earlier this month.

By a 1966 charter amendment, it was renamed City of The Dalles.

Kraft said he planned to introduce legislation to ask voters in November to approve a city charter amendment giving the council the power to earmark money for environmental initiatives.

Case said his group has focused on two specific issues to engage young voters: Amendment 66, the school finance measure that includes a $950 million tax increase, and Boulder ballot Question 310, a citizen initiative charter amendment with links to Xcel Energy that would require voter approval of the debt limit of a future municipal energy utility.