by Joseph Gresser
NEWPORT — After a productive three-and-a-half-hour long hearing on September 3, the amended city charter had only a few sections that need to be finalized. Of course, those few included some of the thorniest issues, but Mayor Rick Ufford-Chase asked the task force that produced the current draft, to meet before the next hearing, slated for September 14, to come up with language on at least one of them.
After an earlier attempt at passing a revised charter crashed and burned on Town Meeting Day this March, the council decided to take a different tack. Mayor Ufford-Chase proposed creating the task force, and with the council’s agreement, appointed the council’s newest member Sharon Paré and former mayor Charlie Pronto as co-chairs.
Mr. Pronto was a prominent opponent of the defeated draft charter. On the advice of the city’s lawyers and task force member Representative Mike Marcotte, the current draft is framed as an amended version of the original charter, rather than an entirely new document. That is being done in the belief that if voters ….
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