Ballot Question 2C
City-Initiated Proposed Charter Amendment No. 2
(Modernizing and Updating – Ordinance 067,2025 and Ordinance 109, 2025 (final ballot language))
Shall the Charter of the City of Fort Collins be amended to modernize and update it by reformatting and updating language usage for ease of reading and clarity, and eliminating inapplicable and invalid provisions, without undoing any substantive Charter amendments approved by the voters at the Tuesday, November 4, 2025, municipal election, by:
- Changing the words “shall” to “will,” “must” or “may,” or other words to improve clarity; and
- Making the language more inclusive by taking out words “he” and “she” and related word forms; and
- Dividing sections into subsections and adding titles to subsections to make them easier to read and understand; and
- Eliminating transitional provisions that Address residency requirements for City department heads appointed prior to March 6, 1985 (Section 3 of Article IV); and
- Set a mill levy cap on Council’ s adoption of taxes (Section 6 of Article IV), which Council must now adopt only with voter approval; and
- Provide for transition from the prior Charter when the Charter was adopted Article XIV); and
- Renumbering and updating section cross-references throughout the Charter?
______ Yes/For
______ No/Against
Summary:
This proposed Charter Amendment updates and removes provisions of the City Charter that, through the passage of time and other outside circumstances, have become outdated, unnecessary, or redundant. Such deletions include references to department heads appointed before 1985, tax provisions now provided in State law, and language guiding the transition from a Commission to a Council form of government that was completed in 1955.
This Charter Amendment will also modernize the language and syntax of the entire Charter in general. Examples of updated language include changing “shall” to “must”, “will”, or “may” where appropriate, and “he or she” to “they”.
This Charter Amendment updates formatting by separating sections into subsections.
What a “Yes” vote means:
A “Yes” vote indicates the voter agrees with updates and removes language in the Charter that no longer serves any purpose and modernizes the language of the entire Charter.
What a “No” vote means:
A “No” vote indicates the voter does not agree with the updates and keeps the Charter language as is.