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Tonight: Menlo Park council may bring 'charter' option to voters

Original post made on Jan 16, 2018

To kick off 2018, the Menlo Park City Council is going to be digging deeper than just setting new goals -- though that's scheduled, too, for the council's Jan. 29 meeting. At its first meeting of the calendar year, tonight (Jan. 16), the council will discuss the possibility of rewriting the city's founding document to gain more flexibility for its voting system.

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Posted by hybrid
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jan 16, 2018 at 5:40 pm

Kate, you write about balkanization, but then you go on to describe ranked-choice and cumulative voting which do nothing to address balkanization. The charter will allow a hybrid system, where East of 101 has is one district but the rest of Menlo Park is also one district with four candidates. This would satisfy the terms of the lawsuit.

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Posted by athertonhorses
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Jan 17, 2018 at 11:06 am
athertonhorses is a registered user.

Kids will be better off by far. Increased facetime with teachers always helps.

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