{"id":375783,"date":"2026-07-16T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375783\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:33:08","slug":"corpus-christi-residents-vote-on-proposed-changes-to-city-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375783\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi residents vote on proposed changes to city government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi voters could see city charter amendments on the November ballot, including changes to how council members are selected and how long they serve.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council is scheduled Tuesday to discuss an ordinance that would place several charter amendments before voters this November.<\/p>\n<p>Among the proposed changes:<\/p>\n<p>Increasing\u00a0City\u00a0Council\u00a0terms\u00a0from\u00a0two\u00a0to\u00a0four\u00a0yearsStaggering\u00a0council\u00a0termsIncreasing\u00a0the\u00a0salary\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0mayor\u00a0and\u00a0council\u00a0membersIncreasing\u00a0the\u00a0number\u00a0of\u00a0registered\u00a0voters\u00a0required\u00a0to\u00a0initiate\u00a0a\u00a0removal\u00a0processIncreasing\u00a0the\u00a0required\u00a0vote\u00a0threshold\u00a0for\u00a0removal\u00a0of\u00a0council\u00a0members<\/p>\n<p>Council members Carolyn Vaughn, Kaylynn Paxson and Gil Hernandez requested the discussion be placed on the agenda for Tuesday&#8217;s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi voters could see city charter amendments on the November ballot, including changes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-375783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}