In honor of the highly disturbing and hypocritical campaign currently underway at City Hall to radically alter the city charter by extending the terms of elected office from two years to four years and change the position of Town Clerk and Treasurer from elected officers to positions that serve at the pleasure of the mayor, here's a video clip from the HatCityBLOG archives.
From 2009, here's a clip of Charter Commission member and current City Council President Peter Buzaid expressing his strong stance against four-year terms.
Due to widespread public opposition from residents, members of the Danbury Democratic Town Committee, and numerous editorials to the four-year proposal, the council scrapped the plan, marking one of the biggest defeats for Danbury Republicans and the Boughton administration at the time.
I'll have MUCH more to say about this alarming development later.
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