Well - to help real estate profiteering. The financier of the "CITY
Movement".
This is what we can expect from CITY of Framingham.
“We know now that Government by Organized Money is just as dangerous as
Government by organized mob” – Franklin D Roosevelt.
*From Framingham First's FAQ page back then:*
Q: Wouldn’t a charter make Framingham a City?
No, not automatically, but it could. The question of changing to a city
form of government would be within the scope of a charter commission.
However, it may or may not decide to propose a change to city government.
This question would be up to the charter commissioners themselves.
Framingham could continue to be a Town. We could retain the existing
representative Town Meeting form of government that has been in place for
years. The existing five member Board of Selectmen could also be retained
and unchanged. One outcome could be a charter adoption with very little
other changes to the Town form of government
*Ballot Question for April 4 Town Election* – no mention of “City” - *Shall
Framingham approve the new home rule charter recommended by the charter
commission as summarized below?*
*Summary of Home Rule Charter*
The home rule charter provides for a full-time elected Mayor serving a
4-year term, and an elected 11-member Council composed of 9 district
members serving 2-year terms and 2 at large members serving 4-year terms.
The Mayor replaces the Board of Selectmen as he chief executive, and the
Council, meeting at least monthly, replaces the Representative town
Meeting. The Mayor and at-large-councilors are limited to a maximum of
three consecutive terms in office and district councilors are limited to
six consecutive terms in office. The School Committee will have 9 district
members serving 2-year terms; the Mayor serves as the 10th member only
voting to break a tie. The terms of the Board of Library Trustees
and the Board of Cemetery Trustees will be 4 years, with half the
membership elected at alternating municipal elections. Elections will be
held in November of odd-numbered years.The charter establishes a Licensing
Commission and a Traffic Commission. Financial
management provisions include creation of a Strategic Initiatives and
Financial Oversight Committee to consider our community's financial
condition and make recommendations on its future needs. Several citizen
"safeguard" provisions allow citizens to petition for measures through an
initiative process, repeal a measure enacted by the Council through a
referendum process, and remove from office the Mayor, Council members, or
School Committee by petitioning for a recall election. The proposed charter
also establishes procedures for voters to bring
matters before the Council and School Committee for a hearing, and creates
the position of citizen participation officer to improve communication and
outreach between the residents and the municipal government. The Charter
creates new local financial reporting,
campaign spending disclosures and ethics compliance requirements for
various officials and candidates. Finally, the Charter provides for an
automatic and periodic review of the Charter to ensure that it continues to
evolve to meet our community's needs. The first such review will be five
years after the adoption of this charter.
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