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Fund preventive care; pay an added tax on taxable purchases.
Allow a faster approval route; reduce direct commission review.
Offer commissioners more choice; weigh auditor independence.
Continue pay, safety and mental-health funds; keep paying the levy.
Defines calendar versus business days and confirms commission salary-setting for the manager and attorney.
Bars the mayor and commissioners from simultaneously serving as association board officers within the city.
Replaces automatic five-year lapse of unspent appropriations with annual commission decisions.
Excludes specified land-use rules from referendum; adds petition-form validation and conflicting-amendment procedures.
Changes mandatory charter review from every five years to every six, beginning January 2030.
Sets salary and benefits by ordinance, capped at the lowest-paid full-time city position.
Removes the charter's separate borrowing and bond referendum requirement; Florida-law requirements continue.
Lets remaining commissioners appoint a qualified replacement until the next regular November city election.
Updates outdated language and references for clarity and consistency with state law.
Replaces the outdated written boundary description with a map maintained by the city clerk.
Raises continuous city/district residency from six months to two years, with a redistricting exception.
Moves March odd-year elections to November even-year elections, beginning 2028; extends current terms about 20 months.
Lets the commission approve covered city real-estate transactions above $750,000 without a citywide referendum.
Requires reviews beginning May 2035 and every ten years, using five voting members and five alternates.
Removes charter floor-area-ratio and mixed/accessory-use restrictions east of the Intracoastal; height and other stated limits remain.
Removes minimum space size, the 15-day commercial-use limit, and the ban on crediting spaces to other properties.
Requires four of five commissioners to approve future changes in police or fire service providers.
Raises residency to 12 months and updates seating and vice-mayor timing after certified elections.
Specifies submission of candidate documents for ministerial review by the city clerk.
Removes the commission's power to decide elector challenges alleging a candidate is unqualified or violated the charter.
Sets at least 72 hours' notice, with practicable shorter notice for specified emergencies.
Updates nomination ties and election certification; removes board advice on job classifications.
Deletes obsolete primary references, removes the two-newspaper-publication mandate, and distinguishes interim from acting managers.
Simplifies some sales and revises safeguards for public/private land agreements; several approvals require four commissioners.
Extends unanimous-commission approval to park license, concession, facility-use and other agreements lasting over one year.
Makes police chief a charter officer reporting to the commission instead of the manager.
Makes fire chief a charter officer reporting to the commission instead of the manager.
Requires five-sevenths commission approval for leases of 20+ years and voter approval for specified property sales or 50+ year leases.
Authorizes transfer to Broward County of a parcel north of Dania Beach Pier for natural-state conservation and environmental mitigation.
Lengthens certification periods and clarifies calendar versus business days.
From November 2028, changes mayoral terms from three two-year terms to two four-year terms; combined maximum becomes 16 years.
Allows a former mayor to immediately seek a commissioner seat, subject to overall term limits.
Permits otherwise qualified vacancy appointees who would normally need a two-year break.
Places current north/south district boundaries into the charter, including the Sea Ranch Lakes coastal separation.
Clarifies qualifications, ethics findings, incapacity evidence, excused absences and externally mandated removals.
Applies general state election laws, allows legally authorized online notices, and changes annual audit deadline from six to nine months.
Resolves terminology, residency-reference and timing conflicts and updates legal references.
Updates terminology, district-election recognition, legal references and notices; permits website notices instead of newspapers.
Applies potential forfeiture for four consecutive unexcused absences to commission workshops as well as regular meetings.
Transfers hiring, termination and supervision of the clerk and deputy from commission to manager.
Removes commission discretion to waive the manager's Broward residency requirement within six months of hiring.
Renames the body, expands it from five to eleven members, and lets commission designate chair/vice-chair; adds participation resources.
Moves March even-year city elections to November; extends current terms eight months and selects vice-mayor each December.
Raises monthly council pay from $1,000 to $1,500 and mayor pay from $1,250 to $2,000, with annual CPI-W increases capped at 3%.
If every seat is vacant, manager/assistant appoints three members, who appoint two more; election required if over 180 days remain.