In the lead up to yesterday’s primary election we wrote of two issues coming under consideration by voters in other parts of the Commonwealth on questions related to the characteristics of their home rule charters.
In Lackawanna County, which adopted a home rule charter in 1976, voters rejected a switch from a board of three county commissioners to a executive-council form of government. We wrote about the proposal at the beginning of April.
In Philadelphia, voters rejected a provision that would have eliminated the City charter’s resign to run provision that mandates members of City Council resign before they run for another office. We recently wrote about the proposal.
Both characteristics are in Allegheny County’s home rule charter, which became effective in 2000. The Charter was last amended in 2005 when several row offices were eliminated and consolidated into the executive branch.