CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Consolidated Government Charter Commission is soliciting support from all citizens of Montgomery County to participate on the Commission’s Citizens Committee.
The role of citizens volunteering to serve on this committee is threefold. First, volunteers will assist the Charter Commission in disseminating information regarding the Commission’s work and soliciting feedback and input of citizens’ concerns.
Second, volunteers would attend and organize periodic meetings of concerned citizens within their respective communities in order that the community is fully aware of the Commission’s work.
Finally, volunteers would periodically attend Charter Commission meetings as components of the Charter are conceptualized and subsequently written.
It is important to Commission that all citizens of Clarksville-Montgomery County know and understand that the Commission is sensitive to its stated mission of writing a Charter that helps everyone to “live, work and thrive as the community changes and grows.”
To that end, the Commission adopted four abiding principles by which it will do its work: (1) The Commission should in every respect consider the well-being of our citizens; (2) The Commission in every respect consider the well-being of the employees of both governments; (3) The Commission should ensure there is complete transparency in the process; and (4) The Commission should establish a Charter that empowers the government to operate with citizens consent and authority.
It is with those principles at the forefront of the Charter Commission’s work that all citizens who are willing to volunteer their time to serve on the Commission’s Citizens Committee are invited to do so. The Charter Commission would like to have this committee established on or before 11 January 2018. Interested citizens should contact Mark Kelly at (931) 245-7435(O) or (931) 320-4837(C) or email at makelly52@aol.com.