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109 Memo To: Mayor Billy G. Moore and City Council Members From: Charter Review Commission Subject: Report of the 1997-98 Charter Review Commission Date: January 8, 1998 The 1997-1998 Charter Review Commission has concluded its work after a series of eight meetings, and the Commission presents this report to the City Council with recommendations for amendments to the City Charter to be submitted to City voters for approval. Italics indicate language proposed to be added, and overstrike indicates language proposed to be deleted. The wording of each of the proposed changes is followed by a brief statement of the rationale for the change. 1. Add a new ~oals statement as Section 1.03 to read as follows: Sec. 1.03. Statement of goals. The goals of the city government are to create a strong community, foster a high quality of life for the city's residents and their neighborhoods, businesses and institutions, promote sound community and economic development, conserve and protect the city's natural resources and the environment, and promote the health, safety and welfare of the city's residents. ********** Rationale: The first article of the Charter provides the opportunity for the citizens to make a statement of the purposes and goals of the City government. This is the Commission's recommendation for this statement. 2. Amend Section 2.02 re~ardin~ the City's eminent domain authority as follows: Sec. 2.02. Eminent domain. The city shall have the full power and right to exercise the power of eminent domain when necessary or desirable to carry out any of the powers conferred upon it by this Charter or by the constitution and laws of the State of Texas. The city may exercise the power of eminent domain in any manner authorized or pennitted by the constitution and laws of this state, su~ject to the right of the owner of the property taken to adequate compensation. The power of eminent domain hereby conf(;ft'ccl shall include the right of the city to take the fee in land so condemned, and sueh pO'vVCf and authority shall indudc the right to condemn public property for such purposes. The city shall have City Hall. 630 East Hopkins. San Marcos, Texas 78666 . 512/393-8150 . FAX 512/393-3983