"Would you be in favor of further amending the Franklin Home Rule Charter to provide for the election of a mayor to govern the city known as the town of Franklin?"
There were 44 responses and the vote was decidedly No = 27, Yes = 17
While was a survey question here, the Franklin voters will see this on the November ballot. What will happen between now and then will help to determine the fate of the question.
Those for the exploration of changing to a mayoral form of government would need to outline the proposal more distinctly. There are different forms of mayoral government, would saying "Yes" mean one of those in particular (no). It should really mean that the Town Council would then start the process of setting up a Charter Commission to determine what the change would be like. Ultimately, nothing would happen right away. It would still be sometime off before a fine tuned proposal would come back to the voters.
Want to know more about the forms of municipal government?
1 - You can visit the National League of Cities site here
(Note, we already operate legally as a city with a council and manager - coincidentally this is the most popular form of government. )
2 - wikipedia has a worthy entry
3 - Strong Mayor Council Institute has some good information
For other survey or quick poll questions that Franklin Matters has conducted over the years, you can visit the collection here http://www.franklinmatters.org/2009/12/survey-says.html
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