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Absolutely NO to council districts.

This is just another ploy by a few locals who want to get into town gov't and couldn't do it the normal way. We don't need four different corners of our town fighting against each other.

I want to have some say in who is representing the whole town, not just some predetermined corner in my area. If I don't like what's going on by the rep for another area, I have no way of voting him/her out - ever! If I don't like that the other 3 are going up against my guy every time, blocking what WE would want for our area, I have NO recourse! I can't try to vote them out next election!

There is a growing movement against council districts as more people hear about it and are figuring out exactly what it is going to mean for them. Besides the fact that we can't even know what "ward" we will end up in, is the fact that there are a few clowns in this town who want "in" real bad - and this is their way of attempting to do it. I know one of them!

NO TO COUNCIL DISTRICTS

The town board is supposed to represent the whole town, and if they don't, they should be voted out. This was the first year in a long time that any of them felt nervous about not getting their seat back.

So because some of them live in the same area, we should can the whole system and try something new, which is guaranteed to create divisiveness and NIMBYISM like we haven't seen?

If all those areas you mentioned feel they've gotten a raw deal perhaps the residents should have gotten together to protest! As I mentioned in another thread, people need to get out to the meetings. Just like school board meetings where only the same people show up, and very few of them, residents can't complain when they don't get involved at any level. If they want change they have to fight for it. If they're not going to fight for it, then too bad for them.

Districts on the state and federal level are huge, there would be no comparison whatsoever to what would happen in Huntington being split into four small corners. I shouldn't even say corners, because we don't know where any of the lines are going to be.

What if the nice areas of Huntington village get thrown in with the Station? Do you think those people are going to be very happy? Do you think the people of Melville would be happy if they got thrown in with the station area? No way. This is going to cause so many problems it isn't even going to be funny.

Corruption comes when you have dishonest people. So let's vote in honest ones, lets allow more people to try to run instead of limiting it to the "chosen" few from a couple of parties who then just cross-endorse, further limiting our choices. Wards are only going to limit our choices even more.

NO WAY TO WARDS