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Pensacola City Council: Size Matters

   July 10, 2011


The Pensacola City Council needs to discuss at its July 20 special workshop the one topic that its citizens want to see happen—reducing the number of council members. Charter checkups, council rules and the like are “reindeer games” that the voters could care less about. However, few would agree that the Pensacola and its population of 50,000 needs to have nine council members.

The conversation may be uncomfortable, particularly since at least two will lose their elected positions, but it should be done.

Yes, size matters.

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