--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For those of you with short memories, the reason why
> there is a problem this
> year with the Mpls City Council is that previously
> CMs ran every two years.
> With that there was absolutely no problem with
> redistricting. It was in
> 1993, just before they left office, that the Council
> changed terms to four
> years, but the terms were staggered - odd/even
> depending on the ward number.
> Then, about three years later, CM Niland offered a
> charter change that the
> terms of CMs would be concurrent with the Mayor.
> That, in essense, changed
> all terms to be four years with no staggered terms.
I may not have a great long term memory either, but I
do know that when I attended my first Ward 2 endorsing
convention in 1989, the council term was for four
years. It switched in either '85 or '89. The reason
this wasn't an issue in the 1990 redistricting is that
the map wasn't finalised until 1992 and then the next
council election was the following year.
The staggered elections stuff came up in the 90's,
well after the terms were switched to four years, and
had nothing to do with redistricting.
Loki Anderson
Marshall Terrace
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=====
"In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking"
-George Harrison
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games
http://sports.yahoo.com
_______________________________________
Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy
Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more:
http://e-democracy.org/mpls
