NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio -- A proposed municipal charter amendment that will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot has been so controversial that, for the first time, City Council formed an ad-hoc committee to edit the amendment’s language.

The committee -- consisting of council members Joanne Krejci, Paul Marnecheck and Michael Wos, plus Michael Michalski and Joel Spatz, both members of the 2025 Charter Review Commission -- voted July 7 to make two minor changes in the amendment’s wording.

The proposed amendment, which is Issue 25 on the ballot , is controversial because it may in effect force council President Marnecheck to either step down from office or quit his full-time job with the City of Brook Park.

“This is not good government,” Marnecheck told cleveland.com. “This is politics at its wors

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