LACONIA — The 19 amendments to the City Charter received were endorsed by no less than 70-percent of voters last week. Despite an effort by former mayor Tom Tardif to scuttle the amendments on the grounds they constituted a major change to the way the city is governed and therefore should have been considered by a Charter Commission, 3,627 of the 5,161 voters who cast ballots voted in favor of them.
When the City Council meets on Monday it will decide when the amendments become effective.
By state law — RSA 49-B:6, IV — the amendments may become effective on the first day of the next fiscal year, which would be July 1, 2011, or on some some other date set by the City Council.
If the council chooses to have the amendments become effective on July 1, 2011, it must vote to affirm that date. If the council prefers another date, it must vote first to change the date from July 1, 2011 and then take a second vote to set the effective date.
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