AUGUSTA -- Revisions to the Augusta City Charter are headed to the voters for a referendum vote in November.

The City Council voted unanimously Monday to accept the proposed changes to be placed on the ballot.

Not that they really had a choice. State statute required the proposed charter changes -- the product of often-heated Charter Commission debate over nine months -- to be placed on the ballot, without any tinkering by councilors.

Three of the seven commissioners signed on to a minority report, in opposition to some of the proposed charter changes. The citizen petition process was particularly divisive.

If voters reject the proposed charter revisions, the city's current charter, as revised in 1998, would remain in effect.