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Min CR 04/10/2025"CITY OF CHOICE" CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING City of Cibolo 200 S. Main Street April 10, 2025 6:30 PM 1-31 I`aliI&`1 Call to Order — The meeting was called to order at 6:32 p.m. 2. Roll Call — Members Present: Mr. Greve, Ms. Latimer, Mr. Weissman, Mr. Langham, Ms. Lambert, Mr. Freimarck, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Hinze, Ms. Hawkins, Mr. MacLauchlan, Ms. Hubbard, and Mr. Boyle (arrived at 6:50 p.m.); Members Absent: Mr. Benson and Ms. McDaniel. Ms. Hubbard made the motion to excuse the absence of both Mr. Benson and Ms. McDaniel. The motion was seconded by Mr. Greve. For: All; Against: None. The motion carried 11 to 0. 3. Moment of Silence/Invocation — Invocation was given by Mr. Weissman. 4. Pledge of Allegiance — All those in attendance recited the Pledge of Allegiance. 5. Oath of Office for Charter Review Committee — Ms. Cimics gave the Oath of Office to all those in attendance. 6. Citizens to be Heard This is the only time during the Meeting that a citizen can address the Commission. It is an opportunity for visitors and guests to address the Commission on any issue to include agenda items. All visitors wishing to speak must fill out the Sign -In Roster prior to the start of the meeting. The Commission may not debate any non -agenda issue, nor may any action be taken on any non -agenda issue at this time; however, the Commission may present any factual response to items brought up by citizens. (Attorney General Opinion - JC -0169) (Limit of three minutes each.) All remarks shall be addressed to the Commission as a body. Remarks may also be addressed to any individual member of the Commission so long as the remarks are (i) about matters of local public concern and (ii) not disruptive to the meeting or threatening to the member or any attendee. Any person violating this policy may be requested to leave the meeting, but no person may be requested to leave or forced to leave the meeting because of the viewpoint expressed. This meeting is livestreamed. If anyone would like to make comments on any matter regarding the City of Cibolo or on an agenda item and have this item read at this meeting, please email pcimics(a),cibolotx.gov or telephone 210-566-6111 before 5:00 pm the date of the meeting. There were no individuals that had signed up to speak during this item. 7. Consent Agenda A. Approval of the minutes of the March 17, 2025, meeting. Mr. Gardner made the motion to approve the consent agenda. The motion was seconded by Ms. Lambert. For: All; Against: None. The motion carried 11 to 0. 8. Introduction of Elected Officials The following council members were in attendance (Councilman Mahoney, Councilwoman Sanchez - Stephens, and Councilman Hicks. Each one of them had the opportunity to introduce themselves and thank the members for volunteering to serve on the Charter Review Committee. Mr. Zech also introduced himself as the attorney that will be at all the meetings and will answer any questions on questions of law and give legal opinion on questions asked during the meetings. 9. Discussion/Action A. Discussion/Review of Chapters 1-3 of the City Charter. The group went over the Chapter 1 and stopped at 3.03. Most of the discussion during this meeting was on section 3.01 Composition and 3.03 Compensation. In 3.01 there were several places the charter still has districts instead of place that needs to be cleaned up in several areas. The transitional language needs to be removed from the charter. Mr. Zech agreed that the language needs to be removed. There was also a discussion on removing term limits or going to 4 -year term limits and also mentioned was to go back to two-year terms. Mr. Zech did let the committee know that there are many different rules that would apply if you went to a four-year term. Mr. Hinze passed out a paper where he had made a recommendation on the language for both the composition and a transitional language if a proposition was to be passed. In section 3.03. No decision was made on any of these items as the committee will go back to items at a later date for action. On section 303 Compensation was discussed and there were several different views on this subject. The city secretary will bring back to the committee what cities in the local area are paying their mayor and council. B. Discussion on dates for upcoming meetings. Dates were discussed and a new listing will be sent to each member. Members did want to keep the meetings to two hours. 9. Adiournment Motion was made by Mr. Langham an conded by Mr. Gardner to adjourn the meeting at 8:30 p.m. For: All; Against: None. The mojiefi carried 12 to 0. PASSED AND AVIIOVEPIrHIS 14TH DAY OF MAY 2025.