Ballot Question 2D
City-Initiated Proposed Charter Amendment No. 3
(Modernizing publication requirements and requirements for adopting ordinances, resolutions and motions – Ordinance 065, 2025 and Ordinance 109, 2025 (final ballot language))
Shall Articles II and IV of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins, be amended to modernize publication requirements and requirements for adopting ordinances, by:
- Revising Section 6 of Article II about adopting ordinances, resolutions, and motions to:
- Make the provision easier to read and understand by adding subsections, subsection titles and better organizing them;
- Remove language entitling any Councilmember to request that an entire ordinance be read aloud at a Council meeting; and
- Revising Section 7 of Article II about publication and effective date of ordinances to:
- Allow an ordinance to proceed to adoption if publication of the ordinance before adoption was not timely, so long as all other notice requirements have been met; and
- Cure late publication of ordinance after final passage if publication completed within a reasonable period of time; and
- Delay the effective date of the ordinance until publication requirements are met; and
- Toll the deadline to file a notice of referendum protest; and
- Revising Section 7 of Article IV to require notice be published on the City’s website and posted at City Hall, instead of publishing formal legal notices in a local newspaper; and
- Adding a new Section 17 to Article IV of the Charter of the City of Fort Collins about how to apply deadlines throughout the Charter in the manner already enacted for Articles VIII, IX and X?
______Yes/For
______No/Against
Summary:
This Charter Amendment modernizes requirements for adopting ordinances, including publication requirements. For example, the amendment would add sections detailing the effects of late publication and the methods for computing time for the purpose of publication. The amendment also removes the option for a City Councilmember to request that an ordinance be read aloud in its entirety at a City Council meeting.
What a “Yes” vote means:
A “yes” vote indicates the voter agrees with updating the Charter language regarding publication and adoption requirements of ordinances and adds language detailing how time is computed for these processes.
What a “No” vote means:
A “no” vote indicates the voter does not agree with updating the Charter language and would rather leave the language as is.