Germantown full-time mayor referendum fails
The charter will remain unchanged. The Germantown mayor status will not become full time.
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The charter will remain unchanged. The Germantown mayor status will not become full time.
Nearly 33,000 people are registered to vote in Germantown, but only 3,513 have voted, according to the Shelby County Election Commission.
“We need to change our form of government. We need to ensure our city has the full-time leadership needed to meet the demands of today and the expectations of the future.”
Germantown residents will be voting whether to make the town’s mayoral position a full-time gig. However, officials took back earlier statements that a full-time mayor must quit any other full-time job.
Germantown is saying if the mayor becomes full-time, the elected individual would have to quit their full-time job. However, the referendum on the May 5 ballot doesn’t state such.
This may be where Germantown has reached the crossroads between commitment to the community and paying the mayor for the 40-plus-hour work week.
The suburb has several ways it could’ve changed the mayor’s duties. It chose a referendum.
The first step in a lengthy process of changing the mayor’s duties, requiring full-time attention, is scheduled for Monday.
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