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REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 1A
Shall Section 3-6 of the Weld County Home Rule Charter be repealed and reenacted to correct
reference to the Department of Finance and Administration and to correct the number of County
departments as three rather than four, thus reading as follows?
Section 3-6. - Commissioner - Departments.
(1) The Department of Finance and Administration shall be coordinated by the Chairman of
the Board of County Commissioners.
(2) Each of the other three major departments, as established by Article IV, shall be
coordinated by one of the other Commissioners together with assistance from another
Commissioner, both of whom shall be appointed by the Board at its first meeting in January
each year.
WELD COUNTY
REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 1B
Shall Subection 3-8(4)(b) of the Weld County Home Rule Charter be repealed and reenacted to
eliminate the requirement that contracts and the disposition of real property be approved by the
Board of County Commissioners by ordinance only, thus reading as follows?
Section 3-8. - Powers and Duties.
(4) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing or diminishing the total authority and
responsibility of the Board as herein provided, the powers and duties of the Board shall
include duties and powers to:
(b) Enact legislation including such means of enforcement thereof as shall be authorized
by law, and otherwise formally promulgate county policy. Unless otherwise required
by statute, the Board shall act only by ordinance in matters of legislation and
appropriations, and by ordinance, resolution or motion, as may be appropriate, in other
matters.
WELD COUNTY
REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 1C
Shall the outdated Subsection 3-9(3) of the Weld County Home Rule Charter, which set the
Commissioner initial annual salaries upon enactment of the Charter in 1976, be repealed?
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WELD COUNTY
REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 1D
Shall Section 3-11 of the Weld County Home Rule Charter be repealed and reenacted to amend
its title to "Official Meetings" and to correct grammatical errors to Subsection (1), thus reading as
follows?
Section 3-11. — Official Meetings.
(1) Regular Board meetings shall be held at least twice weekly on days to be determined by
the Board by resolution; however, regular meeting may be cancelled by resolution of the
Board passed and publicly announced at least ten (10) days prior to the cancelled meeting
date.
WELD COUNTY
REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 1E
Shall a new Subsection 6-5(5) be enacted to the Weld County Home Rule Charter to disallow
convicted felons from becoming candidates for election to or being appointed to County office,
thus reading as follows?
Section 6-5. - Qualifications.
(5) A person who has been convicted of a felony shall not be eligible to become a candidate
for election to or be appointed to County office.
WELD COUNTY
REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 1F
Shall Section 10-6 of the Weld County Home Rule Charter, which says the County shall not be
required to furnish the Sheriff or any deputy with living quarters because they are "keepers of
the jail," be repealed?
WELD COUNTY
REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 1G
Shall Section 16-6 of the Weld County Home Rule Charter be repealed and reenacted to require
notice to the public by two publications ten days apart prior to approval of contracts for
expenditures in the amount of $2,500,000 or greater by the Board of County Commissioners,
thus reading as follows?
Section 16-6. - Public Notice.
Notice to the public of ordinances and of certain official acts, events, determinations,
proceedings or meetings shall be given. Unless defined otherwise in the ordinances, rules or laws
pertaining to the procedure to which the public notice relates, public notice may be by publication
in a newspaper of general circulation in the County or by such other media and in such form as
may be prescribed by the Board; except that approval of contracts for expenditures in the amount
of $2,500,000 or greater, notice shall be by two publications ten days apart prior to approval.
When the notice informs the public of some event to take place in the future, it shall be published
at least five days prior to such event.
WELD COUNTY
REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 1H
Shall the title to Article XVII of the Weld County Home Rule Charter be repealed and reenacted,
and a new Section 17-3 be enacted to the Weld County Home Rule Charter, to authorize the
Board of County Commissioners to make non -substantive revisions to the Charter, thus reading
as follows?
ARTICLE XVII - AMENDMENTS AND NON -SUBSTANTIVE REVISIONS TO CHARTER
Section 17-3 — Non -Substantive Revisions.
(1) The Board of County Commissioners may, without approval of the voters, adopt an
ordinance that makes the following types of revisions to this Home Rule Charter:
(a) Renumbering, revising titles, and rearranging parts thereof;
(b) Correcting errors in spelling, grammar, cross-references, and punctuation;
(c) Revising language to reflect modern usage and style; and
(d) Correcting obvious inconsistencies between sections.
(2) A revision adopted pursuant to this Section is not intended to and is not to be interpreted
as making any substantive change in any Charter provision.
WELD COUNTY
REFERRED BALLOT QUESTION 11
Shall the word, "elective," be amended to the word, "elected," when referring to elected office or
elected officer(s) of the County, in Sections 2-2, 5-3(3), 6-1, 6-3, 6-6, 13-2, 16-1, 16-7, 16-9, 18-
3, and 18-6, and in the title to Article VI of the Weld County Home Rule Charter?
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