Everett City Council sends 5 charter amendments to Nov. ballot
EVERETT — The Everett City Council sent five potential amendments of the city’s charter to the November ballot on Wednesday, where voters will decide on what changes they would like to see to the city’s central governing document.
The council sent forward most of the recommendations presented to them by a 15-member charter review committee, a committee that is formed every 10 years with members appointed by the mayor and city council. Those committee members met over a period of about three months hashing out potential changes to the city’s charter, presenting their final report to the council in June.
The first proposal that will appear on the ballot deals with the eligibility of candidates to hold elected office in the city. The charter review committee wanted to clear up ambiguous language regarding requirements to hold elected office, which didn’t specify if candidates had to be a registered voter at the time of filing for office, or if they would have to be a registered voter for at least a year prior to the election.
Those changes were proposed after in 2025, a court found a city council candidate, Niko Battle, ineligible to hold the seat due to questions over his residency — after he had already won the primary.
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