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Council narrows options on districting; subcommittee to propose resolutions for May 19
Summary
After extended discussion the council’s districting subcommittee was asked to bring multiple resolution options — including an advisory question and more specific charter amendment language — to the May 19 meeting so the council can consider whether to place districting questions on the November ballot.
Vancouver council members spent the largest portion of the May 5 workshop debating how to respond to repeated public interest in changing how council members are elected and whether to move any measure to the ballot this year.
Councilor Paulson, a member of the districting subcommittee, summarized three principal pathways staff and subcommittee members had discussed: take no action; place an advisory question on the ballot; or place a specific charter amendment on the ballot this November. “About the only thing that we wouldn’t have to specify would be the districts themselves,” Paulson said of a charter amendment, but he warned that substantial specificity would be required if the council wanted a…
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