Over the course of the month, the panel will be tasked with deliberating two major questions: Should the city charter be updated and should urban county council members earn more money for the job?
Vice Mayor Dan Wu says the council has agreed to receive a presentation on the panel’s recommendations.
“At the very least, at the end of this, we will have three dozen more really educated and engaged members of our community who I hope will continue to be engaged with the political process, with how things work in the city,” Wu said. “Obviously, I have my own feelings about compensation. We’re seeing some of the effects of compensation being an issue in that this year we’re losing so many council members who aren’t running again. And three of them, three of my colleagues, have stated compensation as one of the reasons that they weren’t running. So it’s obviously an issue that hopefully we can solve.”
Local area non-profit group CivicLex is organizing the effort…