If the measure passes, the first thing that will happen is either the City or the State will sue to establish precedent - so nothing really changes anytime soon, if at all. As far as loosing powers of Initiative and Referendum, that is not true - read the law. Besides, how can you loose something you don't have anyway - we filed a petition in 2006 with over TWICE as many signatures as today's petition and the City, using our taxpayer money, sued us and took us to the State Supreme Court, where we lost by 1 vote. As far as voters electing a new majority, don't you mean that some of that majority has already been SELECTED by virtue of clever maneuvers to eliminate real choices? How is that "the public" electing anybody? It's just another way to maintain status quo and run a risk of any new council ignoring the will of the people and putting FSA back into the drinking water, just as the old council did.While perfectly legal, it is certainly not a democratic process at all - sadly enough.