![]() One only needs to look a little south of Skokie to see how that would play out. The comprehensive system of distribution of municipal resources would be abandoned for a war between the wards. The Village of Skokie is only 11 square miles. The proposed system would divide this small village into even smaller districts (wards?) each of which then would be competing for rare resources with each other. Skokie is about the size of one ward in Chicago. ![]() If the proposals were enacted, they would balkanize Skokie into small parts but not produce the desired results.In response to the initiatives proposed by the group, the mayor of Skokie, George Van Dusen, shared the following response with the RoundTable, (which has been edited for spelling, grammar and style): Specifically, the group is proposing three initiatives that would make elections non-partisan, stagger terms for board members and require hybrid representation, which they said would ensure better geographic representation among board members. ![]() A nonpartisan group called the Skokie Alliance for Electoral Reform is pushing to reform Skokie’s electoral system in a way that will make it more like Evanston’s.
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