TROY CHARTER VOTE IS TUESDAY.(Capital Region)

TROY -- Mayor Harry Tutunjian is urging voters to approve a new city charter drafted by a commission he appointed.

This city charter has many "groundbreaking steps" for streamlining city government, the mayor said Friday.

The public push for the charter, which serves as Troy's constitution, comes after a month of legal battles in which Tutunjian prevailed, one week before Election Day, in knocking the competing City Council Charter Review Commission proposition off the ballot.

The proposal voters will consider on Tuesday would cut the size of the City Council to seven members from nine; have only the City Council president elected at large; …