The Charter Review Committee convened on Nov. 19 and approved the minutes of its Oct. 22 meeting before moving to subcommittee business and scheduling, Chair Pat Nikolai said at the opening of the session.

City staff then reported that three ad hoc subcommittees had met and that members volunteered to lead several groups. The committee confirmed provisional leadership roles for subcommittees: Member Beckman agreed to chair one subcommittee and Member Peters agreed to serve as vice chair; the subcommittees will select secretaries as they continue to meet. Staff said the next meetings for several groups are being scheduled, with at least two confirmed dates for full-committee follow-up: Dec. 10 and Jan. 5.

The committee also carried a routine motion to adopt the minutes from Oct. 22 as distributed; staff recorded roll-call affirmations on the record. Staff asked members who had not attended earlier subcommittee meetings to abstain if they had not reviewed the packet; no such abstentions were recorded during the meeting.

Members and staff spent much of the evening on logistics to keep the review moving. Staff urged appointing a single point of contact from each subcommittee to coordinate meeting requests and room reservations; the city noted that staff availability will be limited during the last two weeks of December and that meeting rooms like the Council Conference Room and the Sparacino Conference Room are in high demand. Staff offered to circulate available room dates and, where helpful, to publish PowerPoint materials and draft language in advance for subcommittee review.

After the formal business, Chair Nikolai closed the meeting. Staff remained available afterward to assist subcommittees in scheduling.

Next steps: staff and subcommittees will continue meeting, circulate draft language when ready and return agreed-upon strikeout/underline drafts to the full committee for consideration.