I think Steve's attribution of the 5 wards with 3 council members is a
little confusing. Greg Abbott proposed that, not me. However, it is
intriguing, but I'm interested in hearing about more ideas from others like
Greg and Steve. Keep them coming.
Russ Peterson
Ward 9
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Subject: Re: Charter Commission and Reforming the Council
At 03:17 PM 9/22/2000 -0500, Greg Abbott wrote:
>on 9/21/2000 1:35 PM, Russell Wayne Peterson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Actually, I kind of like the idea of 5 wards with 3 council members per
ward
>-- one of the scenarios I discussed which would likely be constitutional.
>With proportional representation, I suspect such a system would produce a
>council with 10 DFL'rs and 5 non-DFL'rs.
How about 3 wards of 5 members? I prefer lower thresholds for the number
of votes that will get a new voice to the table. It's more representative,
and brings about more interesting debate.
What would that be... I think North and Northeast grouped together make 1/3,
while South Minneapolis would basically be split in half, with a small
measure of North thrown in near the boundary. Perhaps it would make sense
to have an "inner" section consisting of the area nearer downtown (including
downtown and some of North) and an "outer" section for the areas further
south.
Proportional representation systems aren't hard to vote in, once you pick
one, but it can get fairly complicated if you're trying to compare different
systems.
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