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Residents and committee members debate representation, redistricting and public trust
Summary
Public commenters and committee members at the Charter Review Committee meeting raised concerns that proposed structural changes could diminish African American representation; committee members repeatedly said no decision to reduce seats or mandate redistricting has been made.
Reverend James Williams, a community resident, told the Charter Review Committee that many residents fear the charter review could reduce Black representation on the Augusta Richmond County commission and that public meetings have suffered from poor decorum. “I was somewhat disturbed by the way that I saw and the way things were handled managerially,” Williams said, expressing worry that discussion of reducing seats or redistricting would “diminish somewhat the Black community in its representation.”
The committee repeatedly responded that no formal plan to reduce the commission’s size or mandate redistricting has been adopted. Committee…
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