Rebuild Government Survey on Charter Commission Process – Week of April 5th
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Your Opinion Counts for Democracy to Work.

The Metro Charter Commission task forces have begun to make formal recommendations for the new charter, and it’s essential that they hear from us. This week, we’re sending you another short survey asking for your opinions on questions being considered by the Charter Commission. The survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete, and we will report its results to the Charter Commission so it will know the opinions of the public before it makes its decisions.

We appreciated all of you who took the time to help in this exercise in democracy and to share your opinions with the Charter Commission. The response was outstanding and the results of last week’s survey are at the end of this survey. We hope you’ll join us on Facebook and on our website at www.rebuildgovernment.org to keep up-to-date on our conversations about a brighter future.

This week’s survey comes from the Charter Commission’s Legislative Representation task force. Yesterday, it discussed elections, term limits and age limits for the metro mayor and council. Those issues are the focus of this week’s survey.

1. Currently, there are two different election approaches for the City of Memphis and Shelby County. The City of Memphis elections are nonpartisan, which means that a candidate's party affiliation is not indicated on the ballot. All candidates for an elected office in City of Memphis are listed on the ballot at the same time and there are no primary elections by political parties. Meanwhile, Shelby County has partisan elections, which means that people run as members of a political party. In partisan elections, there are primary races and the political party of the candidate is listed on the ballot.

Do you prefer nonpartisan or partisan elections?

2. Do you support term limits for the metro mayor and council? Term limits are legal restrictions in the new charter that limit the number of terms a person can serve in a particular elected office.

3. The Charter Commission is considering age requirements for metro mayor and council members. That means a candidate has to be a specified age before running for office. For example, the President and Congressional members have age restrictions but most local government races do not.

Should there be a set age to run for the positions of metro mayor and council seats?


4. Please provide any general comments you have for the Charter Commission here:

Thank you for completing this survey. If you have any questions or would like more information please visit Rebuild Government online at www.RebuildGovernment.org or call us at 901.347.8623.
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