It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom sitting in for Brian this week.

In addition to voting for mayor and other contested local offices,

he'll need to turn your ballots over and weigh in and revising the city charter this November.

There will be questions about changing the time of municipal elections and issues to do with

approving new housing developments. The mayor's charter revision commission has been holding hearings, and yesterday

approved five ballot questions, we're going to talk about those, plus one controversial proposal

that didn't make the cut with the chair of the commission, Richard Bure. He's CEO of the

anti-poverty group, Robin Hood, and former deputy mayor under Bill de Blasio.

Richard, welcome back to the show.

Thank you so much.

Good to talk to you.

Now, this might be a little counterintuitive, but I want to start a little bit with what's

not going to be on the ballot November, the proposal to move to open primaries.

That's where all candidates from whatever party are on one primary

ballot and all registered voters can choose among them and the top two boat getters move to the

general election. Now, that's one specific type of open primary and the proposal generated, you know,

a fair bit of excitement from supporters and those opposed to it.

So why didn't this make the cut?

And how did the commission land on this version of open primaries as what it was considering?

Sure. Thank you so much.

Well, as you noted, we did not propose changes to New York City's close primary process.

This was an issue that was not on our agenda when we began the process, when we began hearings in December,

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