Elk Grove City Charter Commission to Try Again

After failing to get a quorum at its Wednesday, December 30 meeting, the Elk Grove City Charter Commission will again meet Tuesday night to consider final language for the draft charter it will present to the Elk Grove City Council at the Wednesday, January 13 meeting.

At the December, 30 meeting only three commissioners, chair person Jake Allen, Jake Rambo and Juanita Sendajas-Lopez showed up. With seven members, at least four commissioners were needed to legally conduct the meeting.

During tomorrow night’s meeting, the commission will again attempt to discuss and refine the draft charter before turning it over to the city council.

Allen says process is ‘politicized’

In a recently published story in Public CEO, commission members Jake Allen and Jake Rambo had unflattering things to say about the process as well as council members.

Allen said the insertion of prevailing wages and apprenticeship program into the charter “politicized” the process. He went on to say that depending on the language in the charter presented to voters he may not support the charter.

Rambo is quoted as saying that the prevailing wage language insertion into the process was because of union campaign contributions to three council members. Although he did not identify the three, council members Jim Cooper, Gary Davis and Steve Detrick have all received union contributions according to public documents.