Conneaut City Council failed Monday night to muster the 5-2 vote required to place a charter change measure on the ballot.
For the most part, we support giving the voters a chance to decide such issues.
This issue would return the city to two-year terms for council members.
Back in 2005, voters by a narrow margin voted to expand the terms to four years, staggered.
You have the council president and at-large council members elected one year, the ward council members two years later.
The charter change really hasn’t gone one full cycle since it was instituted. This fall will see the election of the council president and at-large members for the second time under the change.
The 2005 charter change was suggested because people were elected, got one year to get acclimated to the job and spent the second year preparing for re-election. It leaves little time for instituting programs to better the community.
Some can argue council has spent little time doing anything substantive despite the change.
We think the city should give the four-year terms a little more time. It hasn’t been given a chance.
As always, it is up to the voters to look at who is running, do their research, ask questions and do everything possible to get bright, capable, smart, innovate people on council.
It beats throwing anybody into the job, knowing you can dump them in two years.
Opinion
Give charter change a chance in Conneaut
AN EDITORIAL
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February 4, 2012, letters to the editor: Betty Hamric
Thank you ever so much for all the generous gifts of money, clothes and furniture.
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February 4, 2012, letters to the editor: Carol Valitsky
There are many people who are either living on the streets or sleeping on the sofa of a relative or friend because they have no home of their own
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February 4, 2012, letters to the editor: Charles J. Jacques Jr.
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his income tax returns it showed what was wrong with our current income tax system.
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February 4, 2012, letters to the editor: William Baker
For some time now, I have written opines stating the Global Warming alarmists are the only ones full of hot air.
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February 4, 2012, letters to the editor: Carol Ackroyd
On pets and P. Rarey, I have known Pat for 17 years.
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February 4, 2012, letters to the editor: Peter D. Kovalesky
I know this will date me.
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February 4, 2012, letters to the editor: Joe and Gloria Palombi
Guns. I have never been an advocate of total gun control, but I am an advocate of gun education if you intend on owning one.
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January 28, 2012 Letters to the Editor: Elizabeth Stowers
There are so many memories attached to those old school buildings and the many good places we shopped in the past.
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January 28, 2012 Letters to the Editor: John C. Brooks
I remember how excited I was back in ’73 (or was it ’74?) when I first moved to Conneaut.
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January 28, 2012 Letters to the Editor: David Codney
Have you wondered what happened to President Obama’s promise to create a “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong and just as well funded” as the U.S. military?
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February 4, 2012, letters to the editor: Betty Hamric
