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File #: 25-2813    Name: Restating Home Rule Charter
Type: Ordinance Status: Regular Agenda Item
In control: City Council Regular Meeting
On agenda: 5/20/2025 Final action:
Title: Consider/Discuss/Act on an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of McKinney, Texas, Restating the Home Rule Charter in accordance with the Results of the Charter Election Held on November 5, 2024
Attachments: 1. Ordinance, 2. Charter (redline), 3. Restated Charter (clean)
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Title

Consider/Discuss/Act on an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of McKinney, Texas, Restating the Home Rule Charter in accordance with the Results of the Charter Election Held on November 5, 2024

Summary

COUNCIL GOAL:                     Operational Excellence

MEETING DATE:                     May 20, 2025

DEPARTMENT:                      Legal

CONTACT:                                            Mark Houser, City Attorney

                                                               Empress Drane, City Secretary

 

RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:                     

                     Approval

 

ITEM SUMMARY: 

                     This Ordinance codifies the amended Charter provisions which were authorized by the voters at the November 5, 2024 Charter Election by adopting a restated Home Rule Charter.

 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: 

                     At the Charter election held in November 2024, the voters approved Propositions C and D to revise certain affected sections of the Charter. Those propositions are inserted below:

 

                     PROPOSITION C

Shall the McKinney City Charter be amended throughout to correct non-substantive errors such as misspellings, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure; conform notice and publication requirements to state law; harmonize conflicting sections; and revise references to repealed or obsolete provisions of state law?

 

                     PROPOSITION D

Shall the McKinney City Charter be amended to delete provisions, practices and policies which are no longer employed by the City of McKinney?

 

FINANCIAL SUMMARY: 

                     N/A

 

BOARD OR COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:

                     N/A