From:
Faraz Aail
To:
Downey City Clerk - Public Comment
Subject:
Item #10 Administrative Report - Downey City Council Meeting (Dec 9 2025) Date:
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 7:35:27 AM
Good evening Downey City Councilmembers. My name is Faraz, and I'm a resident in Downey. While reading the proposed City Charter Amendments, I have 3 main concerns that I am against and I would strongly Vote No on in either the June 2026 or November 2026 elections (should they all make it to the ballot):
#2: 1 am against changing the term limits for city council and I support keeping the term limits as it currently is. I don't support adding more terms from 2 terms to 3 terms, and I don't support removing the life time ban when a councilmember completes all their max amount of terms and they can run again in a few years (as proposed on page 888 in the agenda packet). And just in case it gets brought up, I don't support increasing any terms longer than the current 4 years. #6: I'm against removing the twice monthly requirement for Regular Council meetings. Having the 2 required meetings guarantees us Downey residents the stability to know what goes on with the city's business. The Council can already do special meetings if you need more meetings within the month, or you can cancel a regular meeting if there's a Holiday that week (like recently with the Thanksgiving Holiday). If the city council wants to change the permanent day and time for Regular City Council Meetings from Tuesday 6:30pm to a different permanent day and time, that's fine. But to remove the monthly requirement is not necessary and I'm against it. #12: 1 am against increasing contracts without ordinance approval from 10 years to 20 years. 20 years appears too long of a time for the city to have a contract without an ordinance approval. If this amendment gets approved, then what's the point of having ordinances if a contract can last for 1 whole generation and newer city councilmembers will never have had a chance to review or amend the contract with the city because the contract can last for 20 years? This amendment appears to lessen the City's transparency and if the concern is that the contractor may not get an Ordinance approval within 10 years, then maybe the contractor shouldn't be doing business with the city.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Faraz Agil