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THE SUNCOAST NEWS

Published: September 27, 2008

The Port Richey City Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday night to interview potential members for the city's proposed Charter Review Committee. The committee would study the charter, the document that makes Port Richey a city and specifies how it operates, and recommend any changes the committee believed are needed. Council would then have to decide whether to ask city voters to approve any proposed charter changes.

When the council tried to name a committee Sept. 9, things got sideways in a hurry. Councilman Perry Bean said there are people in the city he wouldn't want on the committee because they're "more interested in the city's failure" than seeing it succeed. Councilman Steve O'Neill suggested naming James Mathieu, who council fired as city attorney, to the committee.

Bean delivered at this week's regular council meeting a 3½-page speech on the charter review effort in which he, among other things, refuted "the fallacy that I am a dissolutionist." The comment is a reference to the April referendum in which Port Richey voters said no to the council studying the idea of doing away with the city. There have been a number of such efforts to dissolve Port Richey over the last three decades or so.

We sense council members want to get the charter review done without the controversy that has dogged city affairs in the past. Tuesday's special meeting should be a good gauge of whether that is possible for the foreseeable future.

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