PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EVERETT, WASHINGTON PROPOSITION # 261 The amendment to Section 2.2 would require candidates for Mayor and City Council to have registered to vote in the City of Everett and resided in the City (and district if applicable) for at least one year before the deadline for filing for office; and would prohibit elected officials from holding other elected offices simultaneously. Finally, Section 4.10 would be amended to only require elected officials to take an official oath of office. Complete text of Proposition #261 that would amend Section 2.2 and 4.10 of the Everett City Charter: Sec. 2.2 Eligibility to Hold Elective Office (a) No person shall be eligible to hold elective office unless he or she has been a registered voter within the City of Everett for at least the one (1) year immediately preceding the last date the candidate is authorized to file a declaration of the candidacy as specified in RCW 28A.24.050. No person shall be eligible to hold the position of Mayor or an at-large Council position unless he or she has also been a resident of the City of Everett for at least the one (1) year immediately preceding the last date the candidate is authorized to file a declaration of the candidacy as specified in RCW 28A.24.050. No person shall be eligible for a Council district position unless he or she has also been a resident of that Council district for at least the one (1) year immediately preceding the last date the candidate is authorized to file a declaration of the candidacy as specified in RCW 28A.24.050. Council members must remain City residents while in office and must remain residents of any Council district from which elected. For the purposes of this paragraph, “residence” and “resident” has the same meaning as in RCW 29A.04.151 or successor statute. However, if a Council member is elected to a Council district position for which he or she is qualified by residence at the time of election, and while remaining in that residence later does not qualify as a resident of the relevant district because a new districting plan including new district boundaries has been adopted during his or her term, that Council member shall remain eligible to serve in the same district position until the end of his or her term or until a successor is elected and qualified, whichever is later. Residence and voting within the limits of any territory which has been included in, annexed to, or consolidated with the City or with a Council district through redistricting, is construed to have been residence within the City or Council district, respectively. A Mayor or Council member shall hold within the City government no other public office or employment. (b) Nothing herein shall prevent a district Council member from seeking election to any at-large Council position or to the office of Mayor prior to expiration of that member’s current term. Similarly, an at-large Council member may seek election to any district Council position or to the office of Mayor prior to the expiration of that member’s current term subject to qualification by residents with the district. Nothing herein shall prevent a Mayor from seeking election to any Council position prior to expiration of that Mayor’s current term. (c) No person may simultaneously hold the office of Mayor or Council member and any other elected public office at any level of government, including but not limited to any Snohomish County elected office, any Washington State elected office, any elected office of another city or town, any school district, fire district, port district, public utility district, or other special purpose district, and any federal elected office. A Mayor or Council member who simultaneously holds the office of Mayor or Council member and any other elected public office is immediately deemed to have vacated the Everett office. Nothing in this subsection prevents any person from being a candidate for Mayor, Council member, or any other elected office while holding a current elected position, provided that the person may not simultaneously hold both offices. Vacancies arising under this subsection shall be filled in the manner provided by Section 2.5 of this Charter. Sec. 4.10 Oath of Office Every officer elected City official, before entering upon the duties of office, shall make and file with the Clerk an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States and the State of Washington, and to perform faithfully, honestly and impartially the duties of office. PROPOSITION # 262 The amendment to Section 3.2 would require the City to have at least two council meetings per month and at least 36 meetings per year; require the City to publish a schedule of those meetings every year in January and revise the procedures for determining who will preside over meetings when the Council President is absent. Complete text of Proposition #262 that would amend Section 3.2 of the Everett City Charter: Sec. 3.2 Council Meetings The City Council shall meet regularly, at least twice per month and at least 48 36 times per calendar year at the City Hall, or at a location otherwise designated by ordinance, within the corporate limits of the City at such times as may be fixed by ordinance or resolution. The City Council shall publish in January of each year its schedule of meetings for that year. It is the goal to have weekly meetings. However, the Council President or Presiding Officer may, subject to the requirement of 36 regular meetings per year, cancel a regular meeting because of weather, lack of quorum, insufficient meeting agenda items, proximity to holidays or other suitable reason. At least one of such regular meetings shall be held each month in the evening, with scheduled start no later than 6:30 p.m. Special and emergency meetings may be called in accordance with state law. All Council meetings shall be open to the public, except that the Council may hold executive sessions from which the public is excluded in accordance with state law, including the Open Public Meetings Act (Chapter 42.30 RCW). Meetings of the Council shall be presided over by the President, selected annually by a majority vote of the Council, or in the absence of the President, by the Vice-president of the council. In the absence of both the President and Vice-president, the President will designate a Councilmember to preside over the meeting. Appointment of a Council member to preside over the meeting shall not in any way abridge his or her right to vote on matters coming before the Council at such meeting. In the absence of the Clerk, or Deputy Clerk or other qualified person appointed by the Clerk, the Mayor, or the Council, may perform the duties of Clerk at such meeting. A record of all proceedings shall be kept. PROPOSITION # 263 The amendment to Section 8.3 would revise the City’s Civil Service rules so that the Civil Service Commission’s responsibilities are consistent with the requirements of state law. Complete text of Proposition #263 that would amend Section 8.3 of the Everett City Charter: Sec. 8.3 Commission — Powers.  (a) The Commission shall provide for the classification and hiring examination processes as required by chapter 41.08 RCW and chapter 41.12 RCW or successor statute(s) (b) Employees within the scope of this article who are in office at the time of the adoption of this charter shall retain their positions, unless removed for cause. (c) The Council may, by ordinance, confer upon the Commission such further rights and duties as may be deemed necessary to enforce and carry out the principles of this article. PROPOSITION # 264 The amendment to Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.5 would require an initiative or referendum petition be signed by qualified electors in a number equal to ten percent of the total number of votes cast at the last preceding Mayoral election; would allow for 10 days to correct faulty signatures; would streamline the initiative process; and would require the City to prepare a Fiscal Analysis of the measure that would be made available to voters. Complete text of Proposition #264 that would amend Section 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.5 of the Everett City Charter: Sec. 11.2 Initiative The initiative shall be exercised in the following manner: (a) Petition: A petition signed by qualified electors of the City, accompanied by the proposed legislation or measure in the form of a proposed ordinance and by a designation of a committee of not more than three (3) individuals as sponsors who shall represent the petitioners, requesting that such ordinance be submitted to a vote of the people if not passed by the Council, shall be filed with the Clerk. The sponsor committee designation must include a notice address for the committee. Upon the filing with the Clerk, the petition is deemed final and no additional signatures may be added to the petition except as provided in subsection (c) below. (b) Clerk’s Certificate: With ten (10) twenty (20) days after the filing of such petition the Clerk shall certify the number of votes cast at the last general municipal Mayoral election and the number of valid signers of such petition, and shall present such certificate, petition and proposed ordinance to the Council. The determination of votes cast and valid signers and the certification(s) thereof may be completed by the Snohomish County Auditor instead of the Clerk. (c) Less than Ten Percent Petition: If such petition is not certified as validly signed by qualified electors in number at least equal to ten percent of the total number of votes cast at the last preceding Mayoral election, then the Clerk shall deliver written notice thereof to the sponsor committee together with copies of one or more document(s) that will allow the sponsor committee to determine which petition signatures were deemed invalid and not counted. The sponsor committee shall then have ten (10) calendar days from the date of delivery of the notice to obtain new signatures from the individuals whose signatures were deemed invalid and to resubmit their signatures to Clerk. Upon receipt of the resubmitted signatures, the Clerk shall certify the total sum of all valid signers of the petition as determined from both the originally submitted signatures and the signatures so resubmitted and shall, if necessary, resubmit an amended certification to the Council. (d) Action by Council Upon Petition — Ten Percent Petition: If such petition be certified as validly signed by qualified electors in number at least equal to ten percent of the total number of votes cast at the last Mayoral election, the Council, within thirty (30) days after the Clerk’s certification receipt of the petition, except as otherwise provided in this charter, shall either pass such ordinance without alteration, or submit it to popular vote at the next municipal election occurring at least ninety days after the Clerk’s certification or at an earlier special election. (e) Upon the submission to the City Clerk of an initiative with sufficient signatures, the City’s Finance Director shall prepare a fiscal impact statement summarizing the estimated impact on the City from the proposed ordinance or measure, which shall be made available on the City’s website. Sec. 11.3 Referendum If, prior to the date when any ordinance shall take effect, a petition signed by qualified electors at least equal in number to ten percent of the entire vote cast at the last Mayoral election, shall be filed with the Clerk, protesting against the enactment of such ordinance, it shall be suspended from taking effect. Immediately upon the filing of the petition, the Clerk shall do all things required in section 11.2. (b) of this article. The Council shall then immediately reconsider such ordinance; and, if it does not entirely repeal the same, shall submit it to popular vote at the next municipal election; or the Council, in its discretion, may call a special election for that purpose; and such ordinance shall not take effect unless a majority of the qualified electors voting on the ordinance at such election shall vote in favor of the ordinance. Sec. 11.5. Form of Ballots / Explanatory Statement The ballots use when voting upon such proposed and referred ordinances or measures shall set forth their nature sufficiently to identify them, and shall set forth on separate lines the words “For the Ordinance (or Measure)” and “Against the Ordinance (or Measure)”. The explanatory statement in the voters guide shall also contain an internet link of where can be found a fiscal impact statement prepared by the City’s Finance Director estimating the financial impact on the City of the ordinance or measure. PROPOSITION # 265 The Amendments to Sections 3.4, 3.5, 4.13, 11.6, 13.9, 15.5, 16.2, and 16.3 would modernize how the City provides the public notice by allowing the City to publish those notices, appointments, ordinances and proposed ordinances, proposed initiatives and referenda, bid advertisements, and franchise on City’s website instead of requiring this information to be published in a newspaper, while also having this information available in the office of the City Clerk for examination by the public. Complete text of Proposition #265 that would amend Section 3.4, 3.5, 4.13, 11.6, 13.9, 15.5, 16.2, and, 16.3 of the Everett City Charter: Sec. 3.4 Council Meetings All legislation and appropriations of money shall be by ordinance, save where there is a special fund for a particular purpose; payments from such fund shall be made on order of the Council. The subject of every ordinance shall be set out clearly in its title, and no ordinance, except one making appropriations, shall contain more than one subject. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subject of appropriations. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be in the words “The City of Everett does ordain”. No ordinance or any of its sections or subsections shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance sets forth the revised ordinance or the amended section or subsection at full length. Every ordinance, other than emergency ordinances, shall have three (3) public readings, not more than two of which shall be on the same day, and at least six days shall elapse between the introduction and the final passage, except as otherwise provided in this charter. Every ordinance and resolution shall be in writing and a summary read at a Council meeting before a vote is taken on the ordinance or resolution, and upon every such vote the ayes and nays shall be called and recorded. Every ordinance which passes the Council in order to become valid must be presented to the Mayor; if the Mayor approves it, the Mayor shall sign it and the ordinance shall become valid, but if not, the Mayor shall return it with written objections to the Council and the Council shall cause the objections to be recorded in the meeting minutes and proceed to a reconsideration of the ordinance. If upon reconsideration a majority plus one of the whole membership, voting upon a call of ayes and nays, favor its passage, the ordinance shall become valid notwithstanding the Mayor’s veto. If the Mayor fails for ten (10) days to either approve or veto an ordinance, it shall become valid without the Mayor’s approval. The Mayor’s veto with respect to budget measures shall extend to specific items only, and not to the whole budget. Ordinances shall be signed by the Mayor or mayor pro tempore, and attested by the Clerk. A summary of ordinances, unless otherwise provided in this charter, shall be published once in the City official newspaper, within five (5) days after its becoming valid, with complete text to be provided upon request at the City Clerk’s office. Every ordinance shall be recorded as may be required by state law, attested by the Clerk, and published on the City’s website. Ordinances passed by a majority plus one of the whole membership of the Council, designated as emergency ordinances in the ordinance, may be made effective upon becoming valid, but such ordinances may not levy taxes, grant, renew, modify or extend a franchise, or authorize the borrowing of money. An ordinance which grants, renews, modifies, or extends a franchise shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of its becoming valid unless a later date is fixed in the ordinance, in which event it shall take effect at such later date. All other ordinances enacted by the Council shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the date of their becoming valid unless a later date is fixed in the ordinance, in which event they shall take effect at such later date. Ordinances adopted by the electors of the City shall take effect at the time fixed in the ordinance, or if no such time is so designated, at the date of ordinance adoption. Sec. 3.5 Adoption of Codes by Reference Ordinances may by reference in whole or in part adopt Washington State statutes and federal, state, county, or City codes, or regulations on the subject of the ordinance. Such statutes or codes or regulations so adopted need not be published in a newspaper as provided in section 3.4, but the adopting ordinance shall be so published and a copy of any such adopted statute, ordinance or code, with amendments or additions, if any, in the form in which it was adopted, shall be filed in print or electronically in the office of the City Clerk for use and examination by the public. While any such statute, code or compilation is under consideration by the Council prior to adoption, not less than three (3) copies shall be filed a print or electronic copy shall be available in the office of the City Clerk for examination by the public. Sec. 4.13. Advertising for Bids The Council shall establish the procedures for making bids and letting contracts by ordinance not in conflict with other provisions of this charter and the laws of the State of Washington. When advertising for bids is required by City ordinance or state or federal law, at least one notice shall be published in the City official newspaper or on the City’s designated bidding website(s). Sec. 11.6. Publication of Ordinances — Notice of Election The Clerk shall (a) at least thirty (30) days before the date of election, cause to be published on the City’s website the full text every proposed or referred ordinance, (b) at least ten (10) days before the date of election, cause to be published notice of such City website address in the City official newspaper (or if none exists, in a newspaper of general circulation in Snohomish County), and (c) shall give such other notices and do such other things relative to such election as are required in general municipal elections. Sec. 13.9. Publication Proposed ordinances for the grant, extension, alteration or renewal of franchises shall be filed with the Clerk and published once a week for four (4) successive weeks in the City official newspaper or for four (4) successive weeks on the City’s website before they shall be placed on first reading by the Council. Every applicant for a franchise shall bear all expenses of advertising the proposed ordinance. Sec. 15.5. Publication No person shall be appointed as a regular or special police officer of the City without approval by the Council at its next meeting after the date of such appointment, which appointment shall be published in the City official newspaper or on the City’s website. Sec. 16.2. Amendments Proposed by Petition Whenever a petition, signed by qualified electors, in number equal to twenty percent of the votes cast at the last general or special municipal election, be presented to the Council accompanied by a proposed amendment to the charter, requesting that such proposed amendment be submitted to a vote of the people at the next general or special municipal election occurring forty-five (45) days or more after such petition is filed, and if approved by a majority of the electors voting upon it, such amendment shall become a part of this charter; provided, that when any amendment shall have been adopted by a vote of the people as in this section provided, the Mayor shall, within the next five (5) days, proclaim such amendment a part of this charter, and shall then cause such proclamation to be published in the City official newspaper or on the City’s website; provided, further, that if more than one amendment be submitted at any election, they shall be submitted in such manner that each proposed amendment may be voted upon separately without prejudice to others. Sec. 16.3. Amendments - Publications of. All proposed amendments of this charter shall be published once a week for two (2) successive weeks in the City official newspaper or for two (2) successive weeks on the City’s official website before the election at which they are submitted to be voted upon. Dated this 30th day of September 2026 City Clerk, Marista Jorve 2930 Wetmore Avenue, Suite 1-A Everett, WA 98201 (425) 257-8610 Published: October 13, 20, 2026. EDH1037561

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