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Senate Committee Questions H.508 Change Letting Burlington Council Redraw Wards
Summary
The Senate Committee on Government Operations reviewed H.508, which would remove detailed ward boundary language from the Burlington charter and let the city council change election-area lines; members questioned the lack of an automatic reapportionment timetable and asked for municipal representatives to explain the city’s plan.
The Senate Committee on Government Operations on Feb. 3 reviewed H.508, a bill that would remove the charter's "meets and bounds" descriptions of Burlington ward lines and allow the city council to change election-area boundaries without required timing tied to the decennial census.
Legislative counsel Tucker Anderson told the committee he was presenting the "as passed by house" text. He said the bill strikes the existing, worded boundary descriptions and substitutes language stating that "the election area boundaries that are established by 2023 ... shall remain in effect until changed by the city council." Anderson said the proposal also authorizes the city…
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