Proposed Cleveland Heights charter amendments finally make their way to voters

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Along with a new mayor and a majority of City Council seats, voters will have their say on one large bucket of proposed charter amendments in the Nov. 4 general election.

Supporters of the recommended revisions point out that an earlier batch probably should have been put on the ballot in 2019, after a previous Charter Review Commission.

But after convening for well over a year, extenuating circumstances led council to shelve the long list in favor of another charter amendment -- the petition initiative collected by the Citizens for an Elected Mayor (CEM).

The thought at the time was not to confuse the voters with too many charter amendments at once.

But city officials and members of the most recent Charter Review Commission have been explaining the need fo