Brownsville, TX

• Prop A: A commissioner automatically forfeits the seat for losing a qualification, moving out, a felony conviction, a financial-interest violation, missing three regular meetings in a row without being excused, or missing six in any 12 months.
• Prop B: If the mayor or a commissioner is convicted of a lesser crime (not a felony or Class C misdemeanor), the city attorney asks a district judge whether it involves moral turpitude; if so, a recall election is called without a petition.
• Prop C: Candidates and officeholders can't be personally delinquent on taxes or other debts owed to the city.
• Prop D: Raises pay to $62,500 a year for the mayor and $50,000 for commissioners, only for people elected for the first time after the change.
• Prop E: Creates a charter office of City Secretary and sets its duties.
• Prop F: Creates a City Auditor who conducts financial, performance and investigative audits of all city departments and entities and reports to the Audit and Oversight Committee.
• Prop G: City employees and appointed officials must be hired on merit.
• Prop H: Expands the Audit and Oversight Committee from 5 to 7 members, one nominated by each commissioner.
• Prop I: Lets the Audit and Oversight Committee hire and fire outside auditors and advisors.
• Prop J: Requires the commission to pass city campaign finance rules: disclosure of contributions, donors and spending, and contribution and spending limits.
• Prop K: Requires an Ethics Board and an ethics code with conflict-of-interest and disclosure rules for officials and employees.
• Prop L: Citizen initiative: a petition signed by 10% of registered voters can propose an ordinance; if the commission doesn't pass it within 30 days, it goes to voters.
• Prop M: Citizen referendum: a petition signed by 10% of registered voters can force an ordinance to a public vote before it takes effect.
• Prop N: "Brownsville First Jobs & Contracts Policy": rules for city-funded contracts on safety training, good-faith local hiring, small and local business preferences allowed by state law, and public reporting.
• Prop O: Cleans up charter language that state law has superseded or that is out of date.

Full ballot language is in the Brownsville ballot (PDF). KRGV covered the pay raise proposal.