• Eliminates all municipal governments within the metro city and prohibits any subgroup of residents within the metro city from incorporating as a city.

• Puts the task of designing a new charter fully with the metro mayor, Steve Stenger, and metro transition mayor, Lyda Krewson, and precludes opportunity for public input.

• Dictates the number and titles of elected executives (mayor, assessor and prosecuting attorney), the size of the legislative branch (33 members) and other features, rather than letting city and county residents choose them.

• Makes it so the former city of St. Louis becomes a corporation that comes under the direction of five appointees of the metro mayor. In contrast, former municipalities in the county that survive as municipal districts could keep their own elected leaders.

• Makes it so city voters will be governed for four years by the current St. Louis County executive, prosecuting attorney and assessor, whom they did not have the opportunity to elect.

• Was designed by people on the Better Together task force whom nobody elected, in private deliberations that are not subject to the state’s open meetings and records law.