Participants at last night’s town hall meeting on the city charter expressed their skepticism about Mayor Kevin Johnson’s strong-mayor initiative and raised questions about the mayor’s potential voting power if the initiative passed. During the discussion portion of the meeting, members of the Charter Review Committee confirmed with the audience that if the strong-mayor initiative were to pass, it would immediately create a 9th District whose council seat would be held by the mayor, until a new councilmember could be voted in, in 2012. The mayor would continue to get one council vote, in addition to executive powers including the power to veto and ability to appoint the city manager. “Th