- Stage
- Became law
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Sep 4, 2018
What it does
This Act makes the following changes to the Charter of the City of New Castle:\r 1. Changes the offices of City Clerk and City Treasurer to appointed offices rather than elected offices. This change is consistent with many other Delaware municipalities and supported by the lack of citizen interest in holding these offices with very few contested elections for these positions in the past 20 years.\r 2. Requires a super majority of Council to remove an appointed City Clerk or City Treasurer to help assure the independence of these offices and insulate them from removal on purely political grounds.\r 3. Authorizes the creation of other appointive offices by ordinance or resolution.\r 4. Adopts…
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