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Attorney Collins inputted that the only case he was aware of was in the St. <br />Petersburg/Pinellas area. <br />Mr. Paladin's question on Comprehensive Plan changes was whether all changes <br />had to be approved by municipalities and the counties. Ms. Delegal advised that State law would <br />pre-empt that and county and municipality would still have their own Comprehensive Plan. <br />Fred Mensing, 7580 129th Street, asked (1) if large Comprehensive Plan <br />amendments would still go to the State; and, (2) if there was a way under Charter government for <br />the Charter to define the change in location of voting districts. Ms. Delegal replied, "Yes", to the <br />former and "These are decisions that a Charter can make", to the latter. <br />Mr. Mensing also wanted to know if with selecting a size of commission, under <br />Charter government, could the Chairman/Mayor of the County be an elected official who would be <br />the non-voting head of the Commission for the term of his/her election rather than having the <br />power pass between the various commissioners. Ms. Delegal replied, "Yes". <br />Chairman Wheeler clarified that it would be a form of Charter that could be adopted <br />and would be up to the electorate also. <br />John Williams, Smugglers Cove, asked if the Brevard Charter could also be seen as <br />a simple or starter type Charter. It seemed to him that the simplicity itself changes nothing except <br />setting up an opportunity for citizen initiative. He questioned whether it would be conceivable to <br />offset some of the "red herrings" that might be raised on the constitutional officers issue to have a <br />structured Charter that would provide a 5% citizen initiative, except if a change needs to be made <br />to the constitutional officers it would require a 10% or 15% initiative. He was told there could be <br />two provisions in response to his question. <br />Public Workshop 01/17/07 8 <br />Charter Government <br />