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Madison committee debates shrinking Common Council, focuses on resources and 3-1-1 update
Summary
Madison’s Executive Committee discussed a proposal to reduce the Common Council from 20 members to a smaller odd-numbered body, but members did not vote and instead asked staff for research on 311, population projections, and examples from comparable cities.
Members of the Madison Common Council Executive Committee spent the bulk of their Feb. 10 meeting debating a proposal to reduce the council’s size, but the committee took no vote and instead asked staff to return with research and status updates.
The discussion centered on a memo outlining options to move from the current 20 alder structure to an odd-numbered body (examples discussed included 15 and 10 seats). Alder Ugair summarized the TFOG recommendation history and said the panel had once proposed 10 full-time alders paid roughly $62,000, and he presented arithmetic showing how per-alder compensation and constituents-per-alder would change under…
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