Voters in Sweet Home don’t get to choose their city’s mayor. A proposal on the May ballot would change that.
Under the Sweet Home charter, the city councilors vote amongst themselves on who serves as mayor. According to Cecily Pretty, the deputy city manager, there were some talks in the community to start a petition drive to put an amendment to the charter on the ballot last year.
In response, councilors in February passed a resolution to put an amendment on this year’s ballot to turn that responsibility over to city voters…