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Council votes 4-0 to place proposed charter amendments on ballot
Photo courtesy of Danny Yanusz
A creek runs through the Cascades Preserve, a park on Goodwill Church Road northwest of Oak Ridge that will become part of North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail over the next few years. The Oak Ridge MST Committee will hold an open house this Saturday to present maps and discuss plans for the trail to weave its way through the town. For more details, see News Briefs, p. 3.
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The outcome of the vote was determined at a special meeting held Sept. 5 at 6:30 p.m.
of someone appointed to fill a vacant town council seat to only the next regularly scheduled town election versus the remainder of the vacating council member’s unexpired term, as the town’s charter now reads.
by PATTI STOKES
The other amendment would change the town’s council-manager form of government back to the mayor-council form it had when it incorporated in 1996.
SUMMERFIELD – Sheer determination and a few extra weeks beyond the usual midAugust deadline have paid off for Summerfield resident Dwayne Crawford, who has succeeded in acquiring enough certified petition signatures to place two proposed town charter amendments on the ballot for the upcoming Nov. 6 election. Thanks to the ballot finalization process for the election being on hold while state legislators battled over the wording of six proposed state Constitutional amendments, Crawford was afforded more time to get the required 10 percent – or 819 – petition signatures from registered voters in Summerfield – and then some; after circulating the two petitions numerous times since May he got 908 certified signatures on one petition and 853 on the other. One of the proposed charter amendments would limit the term length
But before the proposed charter amendments could be placed on the ballot, Summerfield Town Council members had to approve resolutions to request the Guilford
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