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Greg Shelton, chair of the Charter Review Committee, said the panel received dozens of suggested charter changes and that the committee’s role would be to “write word by word what are your good recommendations and give it right back to them,” preserving the council members’ original wording for transparency. “We're not gonna be accused of changing anything,” Shelton said.

Committee members discussed the volume of submissions — committee staff and members counted roughly 31 items — and proposed an anonymized process for assigning items to individual committee members for initial review. The group discussed grouping overlapping ideas so the council could prioritize by topic rather than individual submitter.

Committee member Clayton volunteered (and the committee approved) to collate the council submissions into the committee’s suggested ballot-language format and to distribute the consolidated list to the full committee for review. The committee then voted to bring Clayton’s compiled list back for committee review on the meeting scheduled for July 17.

City staff (identified in the meeting as Fernando) said submissions would be posted for public review once they were provided to staff for agenda preparation.

Votes at a glance
- Motion to appoint a committee member to correlate and anonymize council proposals: approved by the committee (recorded outcome: passed). The meeting record shows the motion was seconded and the final vote recorded as 6–0 in favor.
- Motion to place the collated submissions on the committee’s July 17 agenda for review: approved (vote recorded as passed).
- The committee discussed but did not change the underlying proposals; the panel’s action was procedural: anonymize, collate, and return to council for prioritization.

Committee members said the anonymized, collated list would allow the council to prioritize items as a body. Shelton said that once council priorities are returned to the committee, the panel will research and prepare proposed ballot language or technical cleanup language as instructed. Committee members also discussed outreach and plain-language packaging of proposed charter changes to improve voter understanding at future elections.

No substantive charter amendments were adopted at the July 3 meeting; the committee limited its actions to process, assignment and scheduling.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","City of Porterville - Adjourned Charter Review Committee Meeting of July 3, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Porterville Charter Review Committee agreed July 3 to anonymize roughly 30 council-submitted charter amendment proposals, asked a committee member to collate them for review and set a timetable for returning prioritized items to the council for direction.","taxTitle","Porterville, Tulare County, California","taxId",3952,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6656594,"Porterville resident says charter review panel lacks representation, urges scrutiny of members’ holdings",142,163000,305000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5134148-13bacb7bbc9b45b0daf4627562ccca98&start=163&end=305","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5134148-13bacb7bbc9b45b0daf4627562ccca98/thumbnail_163000.jpg","/articles/6656594/Porterville/Tulare-County/California/Porterville-resident-says-charter-review-panel-lacks-representation-urges-scrutiny-of-members-holdings","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6656594-04b1fdbdb3e3e43e11cb0da69127724c/orig.mp4?Expires=1771214180&Signature=hm87lyGKOGnfbpzsuYDvlfMcDEh2YiDnOBvn4WrEffu9bRD4RITGB5yYYRTMVKu~JrToWXFthOqOY1hbjnbmyCvUDQhl5XaTM5ID-XHG2MHMZF-bMgpUoPhMiO9JBR-ByqTEF5XvbK3s2p2kaiexGCL6FmvZiagvjo65QROd3SaWZvCmMZ~vBUiAK8ZVz8MR11tY-BKiOe1gVPQMr7lDCCsDfJoLIdWHrSMQ3QyPIzyft6nOLGIjZutlukeOXWKO0XLkNVNrO1a6~GYLKKlzLjBGomAWOh7BErejIn1k~e1DdG~pX3-sl4NfmHN~V0xh1bfJiWzvdHUuq5VVu01e8g__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Paul Flores, a Porterville resident, used his three-minute public comment at the July 3 Charter Review Committee meeting to press the panel on transparency, accountability and membership. “My name is Paul Flores, and I’m here to address serious concerns about transparency, accountability, and the composition of this body,” Flores told Committee Chair Greg Shelton and members.

Flores said he had contacted district attorney public-integrity units, the Tulare County grand jury, every city council member, the city attorney and the city clerk to request Shelton’s resignation. He accused a local group he named and described as “Blessings of Liberty” of exercising undue influence and said the committee “only exists to reaffirm and follow orders from” certain local actors. “It seems like the committee only exists to reaffirm and follow orders from daddy Meister,” Flores said.

Flores criticized the committee’s demographic representation and said the membership did not reflect Porterville’s population. He also urged the panel to scrutinize members’ property holdings, asserting that Shelton had discussed owning multiple properties and saying it suggested a potential conflict of interest. “With those 7 hundreds, Porterville deserves the charter committee free of self interest,” Flores said.

Chair Greg Shelton acknowledged the comment period after Flores finished and the committee moved on to scheduled business. The committee did not take any formal action at the meeting in response to Flores’s remarks; minutes and later agenda items show the panel proceeded with its planned administrative work.

The committee’s discussion later in the meeting focused on process for handling proposed charter amendments submitted by city council members, anonymizing those suggestions and having committee members research and parse them for council prioritization. That procedural discussion did not include substantive responses to Flores’s allegations.

The meeting transcript records only Flores’s public comment on these topics; the committee did not vote or issue a statement addressing the allegations during the July 3 session.","During public comment at the July 3 Porterville Charter Review Committee meeting, Paul Flores accused the committee of lacking representation and suggested conflicts of interest among members, urging the panel to reconsider its composition and calling on officials to investigate.","actionData","errors"]

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Charter Review Committee to anonymize council proposals, appoints member to collate submissions and sets review schedule

Porterville resident says charter review panel lacks representation, urges scrutiny of members’ holdings