1.   Where bilingual ballots do fill a need is in the initiatives such as bond issues, charter amendments and the like.

2.   A charter amendment cannot supersede state law.

3.   A proposed charter amendment could change that, offering definitions of conflicts of interest and outlining penalties.

4.   Councilman Hal Bernson said he also will accept the money as provided for with the charter amendment.

5.   Rights groups sued and won a Federal District Court ruling that the charter amendment was unconstitutional.

6.   The Cincinnati charter amendment was adopted after a campaign by a group called Equal Rights, Not Special Rights.

7.   Under the law, if a mayoral commission submits a charter amendment, any referendum placed on the ballot by the Council is postponed until the next election.

8.   Until this year, when voters approved a charter amendment calling for a citywide vote for mayor, mayors in Wayne were appointed by the City Council.

9.   Voters would have to approve a charter amendment to create a Health Care Purchasing Authority, the formal body that would negotiate and buy the insurance coverage.