Sentences with phrase «members voted their district»

«Essentially members voted their district and that's how representative democracy works.

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Together, they form the 12 - member FOMC, though presidents of districts other than New York only get a rotating policy vote, and thus considerably less say over interest rate policy.

In 2017 — for the first time in the Park District's 70 - year history — residents took to the voting booth to elect seven commissioners from three two - member districts, and one commissioner at large.

«The outcome of the recent Park District vote was a great disappointment to the Board of Education, as well as to several of the Park District board members,» said William Oelman, District 181 board president.

Board member Bill Diaz voted against it because the bond sales include money for refurbishing the Central Square building, which is owned jointly by the park district, the City of Lockport and Lockport Township and is where all three have their offices.

On Monday, the Mokena Village Board voted 4 - 3 to reject a compromise annexation agreement because board members said they disliked the Park District's plans for the Yunker Farm property, 115 acres along LaPorte Road just west of Schoolhouse Road.

Ron Crawford, member and former chairman of the park district's Soccer Advisory Committee, presented to the board, before they voted last week, a petition signed by 1,000 Arlington Heights residents asking the district to continue to allow its fields to be used for soccer.

The private Wilmette Harbor Association may lose its lease to manage the North Shore marina, and its members are seething that a local Park District commissioner — who took part in private discussions and voted to spend taxpayer money to study the harbor — is making a private play to win the management contract.

Board members said that before they vote on the issue, they want the Park District to provide more detailed projections on how many people will likely use the facility, how they will arrive there and at what hours of the day.

James Strang, a former park board member who helped lead a challenge to the referendum, said a vote to dissolve the district will «destroy «the community «s parks.

GURNEE — Members of the Gurnee Park District Citizens Advisory Committee voted Thursday night to recommend that the Park District Board ask taxpayers in April to approve a scaled - down version of the $ 15 million Hunt Club Leisure Center rejected at the ballot box last April.

DUNDEE TOWNSHIP — Members of the Dundee Township Park District Board of Commissioners have voted to ask a developer for a donation of land and cash in Carpentersville.

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Byrne was among members of the Village Board who voted to block the Park District plan Sept. 4, citing safety concerns raised by residents who live near where the parking lot would be built.

The Park Board has scheduled an executive session for Saturday morning, and board President Ken Nolan said he expects the five - member board to vote to proceed with a lawsuit against the school district.

But board members and park district staff defend the tax vote and the force by saying there were numerous meetings prior to the vote and that the tax was not opposed by residents.

The question of who is running the Chicago Park District headed for the courts Thursday after three members of the old district board voted to file suit challenging a Monday afternoon coup staged by supporters of Mayor Harold WasDistrict headed for the courts Thursday after three members of the old district board voted to file suit challenging a Monday afternoon coup staged by supporters of Mayor Harold Wasdistrict board voted to file suit challenging a Monday afternoon coup staged by supporters of Mayor Harold Washington.

Silosky, who has recently distanced herself from Hurtado and Steinys, has recently suggested Cross» bill may not be needed because the park district board itself can vote to expand from five to seven members.

They saw racial politics, as Iola McGowan, a member of the old anti-Washington park board, was jeered by fellow blacks when she cast a vote favoring Kelly, who has placed white males in almost all the important posts in the park district bureaucracy.

Library Board member Paul Nordhaus, who voted for the purchase, said he was «extremely disappointed» that a suitable arrangement could not be worked out with the Park District for use of the Central Park land for a joint library and community center.

Although board members did not vote Monday on the proposed site, district spokeswoman Julie Vogl, said they seem inclined to consider other sites.

OAK FOREST — The Park District Board of Commissioners voted to close Oak Forest's 39 - year - old swimming pool recently because of what board members said were costly repairs to maintain it and a dwindling membership.

Lautz accused parks board members of maneuvering behind his back and lashed out at Park District Assistant Supt. Ken Kutska, who also sits on the Wheaton Plan Commission, for casting the lone Plan Commission vote against his development.

Park District board members unanimously voted to take Kendall Park off the table as a potential site for the 20,000 - square - foot skate park.

Although the Park Board is not formally bound by the results of the March 21 advisory referendum, the 6,939 to 5,747 vote opposing construction of the outdoor facility on Park District property near Belmont Road and Grant Street gave members pause.

With 650 ballots cast, the top vote - getters for three open village trustee seats were Bonnie Cathleen Blackledge, chairwoman of the Village Cable Commission and a local merchant; Patrick O'Brien, a member of the Glen Ellyn Elementary District 41 Facilities Planning Committee and a Santa Fe Railway Co. retiree; and James Perlstein, chairman of the Capital Improvements Commission and a financial adviser.

Earlier this month, the Mokena Village Board voted 4 - 3 not to annex the unincorporated Park District land because some members said they dislike the district'District land because some members said they dislike the district'district's plans.

Downers Grove Park District board members unanimously voted to proceed to the engineering and design phase of a DuPage County project to put the 8 - foot - wide path on 31st Street along Lyman Woods.

During a special meeting, Village Board members voted 4 - 2 to rescind a bond ordinance passed last fall and replace it with one that changes the type of bond used to help pay for a new tax increment financing district on Lyons» west side.

A taxpayers group was so angry with the Gurnee Park District this fall that it did n`t want to just vote board members out of office.

Park District Executive Director Barbara Heller said Friday that some board members were still considering placing an advisory referendum measure on the April 17 ballot and may reconsider the issue at a future meeting when all board members are present for a vote.

Park District Board members voted to remove Colony Park playground for safety reasons and to renovate the park with a target completion date in April or May 2000.

Council members voted 5 - 1, approving a special - use permit for the Downers Grove Park District to proceed with the project.

If you believe as I do, that Mike's abilities and qualities can serve our community well as a member of District 67's Board of Education, then I strongly urge you to join me in voting for Mike Borkowski on April 9.

GURNEE — Members of the Village Board and Park District Board decided to accentuate the positive Thursday night in a special joint meeting to coordinate support for a proposed outdoor aquatic center to be put to a vote in the November election.

After a split vote earlier this year, Arlington Heights School District 25 board members have approved a 20 - cent increase in school lunch prices.

In a related matter, committee members also voted to hire Wheaton - based Williams Associates Architects Ltd., which has worked with the Joliet Park District on pool issues.

These ensure better local representation, while reducing the number of wasted votes that results from single - member districts.

In contrast, single member districts systemically underrepresent diffuse, politically extreme ideological factions which are minorities almost everywhere which tends to moderate the political system as a whole (something that instant runoff voting also does).

Should 10 % of voting districts be forced to have a MIBAK member as their representative, despite 90 % of their population being anti-MIBAK?

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

The new system is less proportional than the old system (which allocated half the seats through party lists and had smaller single member districts); thus Orban was able to retain his two - thirds majority despite winning 800,000 fewer votes than in 2010.

Looking at the results of 2012, assuming that the popular vote was unchanged, but that every congressional district voted according to the party of its member of Congress (not entirely valid, but the best proxy I could come up with)

All committee members (also known as district leaders) from towns and cities in the 37th SD will be eligible to vote, selecting between the following five announced Democratic candidates:

Each state committee member was elected independently by voters in their district and most of them vote their own conscience.

If I could vote for any of the 435 members of the House instead of just my district, and each of their votes were weighted thereby, it would far more accurately represent the public.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless -

No surprise, as the Club's District Leader, Jacob Gold, had earlier become the first Brooklyn member of the Democratic State Committee to pledge his vote at the party convention to Cynthia Nixon.

The system with 225 local single - member districts elected by a first - past - the - post electoral system (highest vote wins) offers much room for manipulation, use of administrative resources and pressure, extortion, vote buying and putting only one candidate on the ballot in some districts.

If the goal is to maintain some form of local representation or connection between a member of parliament and a district (personally, I am not convinced it's a good thing) with a more proportional representation, Germany has another (rather complex) way to achieve that, called «personalized proportional vote» but even that only gives voters control over some of the seats.