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Home-Rule Study Going on Ballot in Duke City

Council will ask voters to decide whether city should adopt new charter

By Tom Leturgey
The Tube City Almanac
April 04, 2024
Posted in: Duquesne News

Duquesne City Council will ask residents to serve on a committee that will study the adoption of a home-rule charter.

By a 4-1 vote, with Councilman Aaron Adams dissenting, council voted to approve a referendum to create a seven-member Government Study Commission.

Duquesne is currently governed by the state’s third-class city code, which can only be changed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. A home-rule charter would give the city more flexibility to adopt new ordinances, codes and bylaws.

Braddock, McKeesport and Monroeville are among the local home-rule communities in our area. Braddock created its government study commisison in 2018 and approved its home-rule charter in 2019.

City officials said the referendum is Duquesne’s next step toward financial stability after it emerged from Act 47 state financial oversight last year.

Adams did not immediately note as why he voted against the measure on Tuesday night.

Solicitor Myron Sainovich noted that he would be putting together a memorandum that will answer some of the direct and common questions of the process. “We will have it as soon as possible,” he said.

Anyone who wants to run for the government study commission will have to obtain signatures of registered voters of at least 2 percent of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, city officials said. That’s approximately 35 signatures to get on the ballot for the Nov. 5 general election.

Members of the commission, once seated, will have nine months to recommend “no change,” or 18 months to produce a report to the city council on their proposed plan for a home-rule government.

During the public comment portion of the meeting, a resident asked if there are time demands for the proposed 7-member committee, Sainovich said, “Yes. There will be time requirements. It’s not just a sign up and not work” job.

He noted that representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would be on hand to make sure that the study process went smoothly. He said that will all be part of the memorandum.

If the commission recommends a change to a home-rule charter, the process would not be quick. The earliest the completed project would be on the ballot for voters to decide would be the November 2026 general election.

Tom Leturgey is a freelance writer based in Pittsburgh and the editor of KSWA Digest, the online news and features home of the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance. His work also appears in The Valley Mirror and other publications.

Originally published April 04, 2024.

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