Real change is possible, but not with another charter commission.

A possible solution was worked out by the 1999 charter commission.

The charter commission decided that the board could not be saved.

The charter commission is expected to debate the issue during meetings next week.

By comparison, the final public session of the charter commission may seem like small change.

The charter commission is trying to do too much in the weeks left for it to submit its proposal.

The other proposal, on the ethics board, has divided charter commission members.

In the next three years, the 13-member charter commission named by the Governor mapped a plan for a new city.

His departure moved the battle for deeper changes to the charter commission.

Republicans outnumber Democrats in the county 3 to 2 and have a majority on the charter commission.

Indications that the Council would not be participating in a charter commission came as news to the administration.

A charter commission appointed by the Mayor last year planned to take up those questions but later dropped them.

Others argued that the charter commission should expand the Council to more than 50 districts.

The charter commission had already agreed that zoning changes should be reviewed by the Council.

If that prod is lost, the charter commission will have to propose another.

The result was, in many ways, inevitable, according to many of the charter commission's members and staff.

The charter commission could modify the rules to make an exception for planners.

It was unfair to blame the charter commission for that historical pattern, they said.

The charter commission also wants to expand the Council to 51 members, from the current 35, to give minority candidates a better chance of election.

All said they were pleased the charter commission had rejected the efforts to change the law radically.

It has survived every government reform and every charter commission.

The charter commission's work is expected to cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Some citizens' groups want the charter commission to forget about putting the changes on the ballot in November and slow down.

The measure calls for a charter commission to take at least two years to draw up a new government for the island.

The new Planning Commission would have 12 members under the charter commission's recommendations.