WM: No, some thirty years ago it was not an issue. It was in the late 80's, I think, when council terms went from 2 years to 4 years. Before that there was a council election in years ending in 2. At most,Also, Jonathan Palmer in questioning Rep. Kahn's motivation to remedy the post-census ward line issues as she has proposed, comes to a very important observation when he states, "Yet this was never an issue important enough for her to raise in the previous 15 terms."
the question could have come up after the 1990 census, but since the election was already slated for 1992, there was, as yet, no issue. Nor would there be an issue now if the ward lines had been drawn so that each ward had a resident council member at the end of the election.
WizardMarks, Central
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