Enough valid signatures have been turned in to get a proposed charter amendment on the ballot that would require a full-time mayor, the Stark County Board of Elections said.
A group led by former Councilman Chuck Osborne submitted 973 signatures. Board staff found that 952 of them were valid signatures of registered North Canton voters, well above the 746 legally required.
Council President Jon Snyder, Ward 4, says council will meet 5:30 p.m. Monday to vote to place the issue on the Nov. 5 ballot, as required by law.
(Council also will decide Monday evening whether to accept a fact finder?s report recommending how to resolve an impasse on wages between the city and the union for the city?s police officers, a unit of the Ohio Patrolmen?s Benevolent Association.)
If voters approve the mayoral amendment, the mayor would be required to ?devote his entire time and effort during regular business hours and all other times as are necessary to properly conduct the business of the city.? The mayor would not be allowed to hold another job during regular hours.
The current mayor, David Held, works weekdays as the executive director of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District.
Osborne said in May that the city needs a full-time mayor who can devote all their attention to city business and not juggle being mayor with another job. He said the amendment would not take effect until 2015.
The mayor now earns $15,000 a year. Council voted Monday to raise the mayor?s and council members? annual salaries by $2,400 effective Dec. 1. It would be up to council to set the salary for a full-time mayor.
Osborne, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2003, has said he did not draft the amendment to make it easier for him to get the job.
?I?m never going to run again,? said Osborne, who was an at-large councilman from 2001 to 2003. ?I?m actually more effective passing my own laws ... (and) serving as a watchdog.?
Last year, he and his supporters collected enough signatures to place a proposed ordinance on the ballot that limited elected officials? health insurance benefits. Nearly 72 percent of voters approved it in November.
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