Group gathering support for city to adopt council by districts
A Detroit group of community activists are gathering signatures in support of scrapping one city council and going to council by districts.Excerpt:A coalition of Detroit-based community organizations is reaching out to volunteers to collect more than 31,000 signatures to put a proposal to elect council members by district on the November ballot.Detroiters for City Council by Districts said it already has collected more than 10,000 signatures. The coalition is holding a training session next week for volunteers to help it collect the remaining signatures of the 31,240 required by Aug. 4 to put the proposal on the ballot.If successful, the effort would amend the current, 1997 Detroit City Charter to elect nine council members — seven from districts and two serving at-large.Read the entire article here.
A Detroit group of community activists are gathering signatures in
support of scrapping one city council and going to council by districts.
Excerpt:
A
coalition of Detroit-based community organizations is reaching out to
volunteers to collect more than 31,000 signatures to put a proposal to
elect council members by district on the November ballot.
Detroiters
for City Council by Districts said it already has collected more than
10,000 signatures. The coalition is holding a training session next
week for volunteers to help it collect the remaining signatures of the
31,240 required by Aug. 4 to put the proposal on the ballot.
If
successful, the effort would amend the current, 1997 Detroit City
Charter to elect nine council members — seven from districts and two
serving at-large.
Read the entire article here.
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