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Committee hears Burlington charter pitch to let city council reapportion wards more frequently
Summary
Representative Bob Herbert described proposed Burlington charter changes that would remove fixed ward descriptions and allow the city council to redraw ward boundaries (up to once every five years); senators raised concerns about the lack of a required reapportionment interval and about the cost and method of local population tracking.
Representative Bob Herbert appeared before the Government Operations Committee on Feb. 4 to explain proposed Burlington charter changes that would eliminate detailed, static ward descriptions and permit the Burlington City Council to redraw ward boundaries more frequently in response to population shifts.
Herbert said the draft would let the city "change that" ward map as the population evolves, replacing a lengthy, fixed description in the charter with a process the city council can use to reapportion representation. "As population changes in Burlington,…
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