San Diegans will be asked in June to vote on locking in the city’s experiment with a “strong mayor” form of government.  The League of Women Voters believes that the public should have more time to evaluate what will be a transformative City Charter revision — the first in 80 years. The League proposed a separate choice on the June ballot to extend the trial period of the strong mayor system. The option to extend the trial period was made explicit when the strong mayor experiment began in 2004. A representative from the mayor’s office attacked the League proposal during a City Council committee discussion last week. He said, “The Mayor believes that this measure, the League’s measure, is a strategy to sink strong-mayor by confusing voters.” Quite the contrary, informing voters about complex and confusing matters of government has always been the League’s high purpose. The League wants to give San Diego voters more time to make a wise decision about whether, when or how to revise the San Diego City Charter. This is consistent with the League’s longstanding commitment to the strengthening of voters’ rights and democratic and ethical government.