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Old 08-31-2013, 08:12 AM
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SA needs a hybrid system like this 4 city council members elected At Large, but must reside in their districts, 4 Single Member Districts to be elected only by voters in that district, and Mayor. Result? You get 2 Council Members for each district. Plus it shrinks the Council down from 10 to 8.
My vote would be to double the number of districts. With 1.32 million people in the city, each district has 132,000 residents. That means each council district by itself would be the 20th largest city in Texas. Cut 'em in half and it's a more manageable 66,000 residents per district. We'd get better part-time representation, because at $20/meeting, we're not paying them enough to represent over 100K people full-time.
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SA needs a hybrid system like this 4 city council members elected At Large, but must reside in their districts, 4 Single Member Districts to be elected only by voters in that district, and Mayor. Result? You get 2 Council Members for each district. Plus it shrinks the Council down from 10 to 8.
I proposed this in Austin several months back before the council when they had the 10-1 vs. 8-2-1 debate, along with stricter term limits, time to bring back the 2, 2 year terms that were in place back in 1991.


The term limits are NOT the problem. They were just changed what? 4 years ago? The term limits that were in place were in some problems PART of the problem.


The 10 member city council districts IS the problem. Its very difficult if not impossible to truly govern and actually represent your constituents effectively when there are simply so many people in each district.

While I"m not sure if you need to double the districts, something like 14-16 would be ideal I think.
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