For Star subscribers: Arizona lawmakers are trying to strip cities of their home rule — simply to help get Republicans elected to the Tucson City Council.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Some Arizona lawmakers want 19 cities to be stripped of their right to home rule, simply to help get Republicans elected to the Tucson City Council.
People are also reading… So Wadsack has proposed Senate Concurrent Resolution 1023 to remove the authority to form charter cities. If approved by legislators and ratified in 2024 by voters, it would free state lawmakers to tell Tucson how it must run its elections. Other cities also oppose measure Wadsack's idea has drawn opposition from the League of Arizona Cities and Towns. Lobbyist Tom Belshe said the people who wrote the Arizona Constitution said people living in cities should be able to decide if they want a charter and the home rule ability to craft their own laws that comes with it.Also important, he said, is that charters can impose more limits on city officials than Arizona law requires.
Sen. Juan Mendez, D-Tempe, whose city also has a charter, poked fun at the claim that every city should fall into line with what the Legislature decides. Fallback proposal While SCR1023 was approved by the GOP-controlled Senate Government Committee on a party-line vote, Wadsack has a fallback proposal should this one falter amid opposition from other charter cities.
Greenhill said Tucson residents apparently like the system, pointing out that a ballot measure in the 1990s to change it was rejected.Greenhill said putting the measure on the statewide ballot in 2024 would be inconsistent with Wadsack's desire to have only those in a given council district decide what is best for themselves.
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