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Charter commission rejects motion to adopt 15-member council model, tables further minority-party-representation discussion
Summary
The Norwalk Charter Revision Commission debated three options to improve minority-party representation, voted down a motion to adopt a 15-member model with three representatives per district, then voted to table further discussion for a later meeting.
The Charter Revision Commission on March 4 debated three alternatives to increase minority-party representation in Norwalk city government and voted down a motion to adopt a model that would create a 15-member council with three representatives per district.
Commissioners spent more than an hour discussing whether to keep the current five-district structure with five at-large seats (option 1), move to three representatives per district with a cap on same-party winners per district (option 2), or create 15 single-member “mini” districts (option 3). Commissioner Doug Hempstead moved to…
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