Report and Recommended Home Rule Charter The Recommended Home Rule Charter establishes sweeping and necessary reforms to our broken system of county government. The Charter minimizes the role of damaging political influences in day-to-day county decision-making, establishes a professional and modernized government to handle county affairs, limits annual increases in real estate tax revenues, and fixes serious inefficiencies in the organization and operation of county government. The Charter also creates expanded opportunities for citizens to participate in county government, provides for greater representation, and prevents the entrenchment of a political class. Perhaps most important, the Charter requires that the new county government operate under a strong and enforceable ethics code. It ends nepotism, cronyism, and favoritism while instituting a government based on merit, qualifications, and integrity. The Government Study Commission has comprehensively studied and reviewed our existing Luzerne County government, along with ways to improve it, for over fourteen months. Our members are confident that the new government set forth in the Charter is vastly superior to the outdated and ineffective system currently in place. The question of adopting the Recommended Home Rule Charter will be on the November 2, 2010 ballot, and we call for its adoption by the voters of Luzerne County. The members of the Luzerne County Government Study Commission sincerely thank the citizens of Luzerne County for allowing us the privilege of serving our county. A full copy of the charter can be found in the below.
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 LUZERNE COUNTY GOVERNMENT STUDY COMMISSION Mayor James J. Haggerty, Chair Veronica Ciaruffoli, First Vice-Chair Richard Heffron, Second Vice-Chair Richard Morelli, Treasurer Charmaine Hersker Maynard, Secretary John Adonizio Frank E. P. Conyngham Christopher Kersey Jeffrey Niemiec Jack Schumacher Robert Wanyo |
