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McKinney council discusses expanding single-member districts, defers charter change pending state action
Summary
Consultant and council members discussed options to increase single-member district representation from four to six or convert all seats to single-member districts; council members favored waiting for potential state legislative fixes before pursuing a charter amendment.
The McKinney City Council revisited whether to increase the number of single-member districts on the council and how a state law change could affect any charter amendment and future redistricting.
City staff introduced consultant Mr. Sequest, who reviewed the city's current composition — a mayor and six council members: four elected from single-member districts and two at-large — and outlined options including converting all seats to single-member districts or expanding the hybrid model by adding two single-member districts.
"One way of doing that would be to go to a 6-0, so converting the at-large seats to all single-member districts," Mr. Sequest told the council. He described benefits of single-member districts such as smaller constituent populations per member and potentially lower Voting Rights Act…
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