The Council by Districts movement is likely to get a vote in the
November election. Though the signatures required still need to be
verified, the group turned in nearly 10,000 more than required.
Excerpt:
A movement to have a Detroit City Council elected by district, instead
of the current at-large configuration, appears to be headed for the
November general election ballot.
Detroiters for Council by Districts delivered boxes containing more
than 38,000 voter signatures to the Detroit City Clerk's Office on
Tuesday afternoon.
With only 29,000 signatures required to place the proposal on the
ballot, Mildred Madison, president of the League of Woman Voters
Detroit, said the number of signatures collected shows "that the people
want representation in their areas."
Read the entire article
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Short post about how Detroit is moving toward districts similar to the Boston system in a Boston Blog
here.
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