Miami City Commissioner Ralph Rosado is urging Miami voters to approve a ballot measure in November that would mandate the creation of a Charter Review Commission every ten years, calling it a fundamental move toward “good governance.”

In an op-ed published Monday in the Miami Herald , Rosado said the city should regularly update its Charter, which he referred to as the city's “constitution.”

"Every decade, the U.S. Census tells us who we are and how we’ve changed," wrote Rosado, who sponsored the measure. "But while we regularly update our data, we rarely update the document that defines how we govern ourselves — the City Charter. That needs to change."

Under the Nov. 4 proposed ballot measure, the city would create a seven-member commission following each U.S. Census, which is cond

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