Who Speaks for Your Neighborhood?

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Who Speaks for Your Neighborhood? Just three years ago, Columbus updated how it elects its City Council members. Under this revised model, Council candidates must live in the district they seek to represent, but their seats are at-large, meaning City Council members don't represent any specific area of the city. What's more, every voter across Columbus gets to vote for any candidate, not just ones who live in their neighborhood. A growing number of residents say the system still isn’t working. A reform effort to let voters in each district choose their own representative is underway. Two November ballot initiatives, Issues 8 and 9, propose to shake up the system: one will let voters in each of the City’s districts choose their own Council representative, giving Columbus a true “ward” system. A second would install nine district-elected members but also grow City Council to 13 members by adding four at-large council seats. With the most significant changes to city government in decades headed to the ballot, can Columbus agree on what fair Council representation actually looks like? Featuring: Nick Bankston, Member, Columbus City Council Morgan Harper, Executive Director, Columbus Stand Up Jesse Vogel, Former Columbus City Council Candidate and Community Advocate Sean Walton, Jr., President, NAACP Columbus Branch 3177 Your host is Walker Evans, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, Columbus Underground. This forum was sponsored by Columbus City Council, with the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus as CMC's forum partner. The presenting sponsor of the CMC livestream is The Center for Human Kindness at the Columbus Foundation. CMC’s livestream partner is The Columbus Dispatch.&nbsp; This forum is also supported by Downtown Columbus, Inc. and The National Veterans Memorial and Museum. CMC’s theme music was composed by Jeffrey Ciampa. If you would like to keep exploring this week’s forum topic, our fantastic partners at The Columbus Metropolitan Library recommend reading "Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World," edited by Jennifer Vey and Nate Storring (2022). Content Use Notice This program is produced and recorded by the Columbus Metropolitan Club. CMC publishes recordings of its civic forums to promote informed public dialogue and public access to important community conversations. All video and audio content produced by the Columbus Metropolitan Club is provided for personal viewing and non-commercial use. Educational, media, documentary, broadcast, conference, or commercial reuse of this content requires prior written permission from the Columbus Metropolitan Club. For licensing or permission inquiries, please contact: admin@columbusmetroclub.org Unauthorized reproduction or redistribution of this content for commercial purposes is prohibited. ©Columbus Metropolitan Club The Columbus Metropolitan Club http://columbusmetroclub.org <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/43410094/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/207969884