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St. Albans council refers municipal-judge election and council-size review to ordinance committee
Summary
Council members voted to send two separate proposals — making the municipal judge an elected position and reducing the size of the city council — to the ordinance committee for research and a draft ordinance; proponents cited precedent and efficiency, opponents warned about concentration of power.
The St. Albans City Council on April 21 voted to refer two charter-and-code topics to the Ordinance Committee: whether the municipal judge should be an elected position and whether the size of the City Council should be decreased.
Councilman Page moved to send the question of making the municipal judge an elected office to the Ordinance Committee for further investigation and drafting. Page said there is…
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