Voters asked to OK procedural change
By Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published June 10, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
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Denver voters will decide Aug. 12 whether or not to take away the City Council's procedural duty of dealing with citizen initiatives, which can be controversial and out of line with their beliefs.
Currently, the City Charter gives the council only two options with a citizen initiative or referendum: approve it as is or place it on the ballot.
Council members said the responsibility sometimes puts them in an uncomfortable spot. They voted Monday to refer to voters a proposed charter amendment that would require the clerk and recorder to put an initiative or referendum on the ballot instead.
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