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Hayden residents and visitors eat lunch during the Hayden Daze barbecue Saturday. Residents of Hayden will vote Tuesday on whether to change the town’s system of government to a home rule charter.
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Hayden votes Tuesday
Residents will decide whether to change to home rule system Blythe Terrell
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HAYDEN
Hayden residents will dictate their town’s governance during a Tuesday vote on the proposed home rule charter. The town will decide whether to remain a statutory town or switch to a home rule town and whether to accept or reject the charter. Hayden voters approved a nine-member Home Rule Charter Commission in
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March, and the commission built a charter that will govern the town if approved. Hayden Mayor Lorraine Johnson was a member of the commission. Residents received information last week about the charter and the vote. “We really haven’t gotten any kind of response from it, and I hope that we do because it’s really going to be a benefit for the town,” she said. Johnson noted the small turnout in the March election
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To vote
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Voting is from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Hayden Town Hall, 178 W. Jefferson Ave. Take a form of identification.
The proposed Home Rule Charter can be read with this story at www. steamboatpilot.com and at www. townofhayden.org.
for the Charter Commission. Eighty of the more than 980 registered voters cast ballots. Of those, 68, or 85 percent, voted in favor of the commission. Nine people ran for the nine spots. “I’m hoping there’s a good
turnout for it, but if the election to start the process was so low, it makes me wonder just what this election’s going to be like,” Johnson said. Only a few people came to a See Hayden, page 14
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