Norwich — The City Council will ask the Charter Revision Commission to reconsider seven issues, including its decision not to raise the city’s bonding limit without referendum, proposed terms and pay for aldermen and allowing the mayor to be a voting member of any city agency.

The recommended changes, approved in a resolution Monday night, were not discussed by the council in public session.

Instead, Mayor Deberey Hinchey said, she and the four Democratic aldermen discussed the recommended changes in a recent closed-door party caucus. Hinchey then talked to Republican aldermen Sofee Noblick and William Nash “individually.”

Hinchey said the council used the caucus and asked city Corporation Counsel Michael Driscoll to write the recommendations approved Monday, because it faced strict state statutory time limits on getting its recommendations to the Charter Revision Commission. The council had to respond to the commission within 15 days of the April 13 charter public hearing.

The final proposed charter changes will be put to voters in a referendum in November.

Aldermen objected to the charter commission’s recommendation that the city’s bonding limit be retained at $800,000 without needing a referendum. Charter commission members rejected an earlier recommendation by the City Council that it be raised to 2 percent of the city’s overall budget.

In its new recommendation, aldermen will ask the commission to consider changing the limit to 1 percent of the previous year’s budget.

The council also wants the commission to reconsider several decisions regarding the mayor and council structure. The council asked the commission to delete its changes that would no longer allow the mayor to serve as a voting “ex-officio” member of all city boards and commissions, would eliminate the position of economic development assistant to the mayor — never filled under four mayors — be eliminated.

The council also wants the commission to delete a proposed charter change that would allow the city manager to restructure city departments or divisions within departments.

The charter commission said the six-member council elected at large every two years should remain the same, along with the $100 per month stipend aldermen receive. Instead, the council would like aldermen to serve four years and compensation be set through an ordinance that could change over time. The $100 per month has been in place for decades.

The council agreed that the position of council president pro tempore be changed to deputy mayor but did not like the charter commission’s plan to have the highest elected aldermen serve as deputy mayor. Instead, the council wants to keep the current system in which aldermen would elect the deputy mayor following the municipal election.

Finally, the charter commission recommended changing the Board of Education positions to four-year staggered terms, rather than the current two-year terms for all nine members. The council recommended staggered terms “other than four years.”

Driscoll said Norwich has had various term periods and membership totals for the school board since the mid-20th century, at one time having six members with three-year terms, and then switching to six members with staggered six-year terms. In the 1970s, it was changed to the current nine members with two-year terms.

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