Charter Recommendations
June 24th, 2010
As the city’s Charter Revision Commission winds up its forums on various issues, groups in the city are setting out their views on what the commission might put before the voters. (The forum on land use will take place this evening at the Flushing public library.)
Earlier this week, the Women’s City Club, a long-time civic group, weighed in on two of the biggies — term limits and nonpartisan elections — and came out against both. In a letter to commission chair Matthew Goldstein, club president Ruth Acker said term limits “focus public officials’ attention on short-term results rather than long-range planning and create a musical chairs governmental game where staff and lobbyists wield undue influence.”
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