Word: counciler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With recent cuts in state aid, many city politicos say the council's focus on rent control could change as taxes and fiscal woes take center stage. And that new emphasis could lead to a reevaluation of the PR system itself...
...past year, development has become one of the most sharply debated issues before the council. Several neighborhood groups have claimed that the city's policy of actively promoting construction damages thequality of residential life...
Other groups are also critical of PR RepublicanCity Committee chair Vincent L. Dixon says hewould prefer a council organized along the Bostonmodel, with some members representing districtsand some elected at large...
Dixon, of course, may have ulterior motives.The city's tiny minority of registered Republicanshas not had a representative on the council sinceCornelia B. Wheeler retired in 1969. And a returnto a ward-based system would almost inevitablystrengthen political parties...
...city repealed PR in 1947--shortly afterBenjamin Davis, Jr. Was elected to the CityCouncil on the Communist party ticket. AnotherCommunist and two members of the socialistAmerican Labor Party had previously served on theNew York council...