Because the proposed charter amendment was the result of a successful petition, the city’s legal team said the city council had no choice but to put it on the ballot.Even so, three North Side councilmen made sure to leave council chambers rather than help pass it: Councilman Manny Pelaez (D8), Councilman John Courage (D9), and Councilman Clayton Perry (D10).
The three councilmen were marked as “absent” on the final 7-0 vote tally. The District 7 council seat is still vacant after Ana Sandoval’s resignation in January and was not included in the count.
The Justice Charter was put forward by a coalition of activist groups led by Act 4 SA and Ground Game Texas, which gathered roughly 38,000 signatures to put it in front of voters. The City Clerk’s office certified nearly 21,000 of the signatures, which surpassed the 20,000 signature threshold.“We got enough signatures to put this on the ballot. Your only job is ministerial to say, ‘yes, it should be on the ballot.’ And they didn’t do that today. They didn’t do their job,” Tomas said.
Even with the city council action, there are still lingering legal questions of how the Justice Charter could actually end up appearing before voters.to force the city to split the ballot initiative into several measures, instead of just one. The court has not ruled yet, but on Thursday it ordered both sides to to provide a status report by Feb. 20 on the city council’s actions.
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