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Peter Silliman

Oct 8, 2026

4:08
But kind of walk us through those specific charter amendments, what they do.
4:14
okay it's easy to have a charter amendment idea but you have to get it through the council so i was successful at getting two through the council and they did have over two-thirds support in the charter review commission for them but the first one is focused on budget transparency so i was looking at long-term impacts uh strategic impacts to the county and promoting Budget awareness, how the county is spending your money, seems like a good long-term way to increase accountability for how the county is spending our money.
4:48
So this specifically would require more public presentations of the budget during September and October, whereas last year, and you'll see this year, their first public presentation of the budget is around the end of October, and then they pass the budget and any tax increases the first of December.
5:08
So in the past, very few people have been involved in that process.

29 MINS LATER

34:29
So we are speaking our minds as citizens.
34:32
I'm going to land right in the middle on 19 because I'm like, hey, if you support term limits, go ahead and vote for it.
34:37
If you don't, don't, because I don't see it providing any impact either way, as you addressed earlier.
34:43
When was the last time somebody tried to run for a third? Right.

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