Petersburg Pilot -

The borough assembly failed to pass an ordinance that would have designated borough assembly seats in its third reading on Monday.

Ordinance #2019-01 was amended at the previous assembly to, if passed, be put on the municipal election ballot in October to allow voters to make the final decision to change the borough assembly election process. The ordinance would have required borough election ballots to no longer allow voters to choose which candidates they wanted to fill the open assembly seats, but instead, the candidates would choose a specific seat to run for.

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