Staten Islanders are just looking to have the same sort of control over their governments their small-town and suburban counterparts across the state enjoy.
In the city, with roughly 4.6 million voters, each of 51 council members represents some 90,000 voters. In suburban Scarsdale, each of seven village trustees represents 1,036 of the 7,252 registered voters.Paul Martinka
Indeed, a key memo to the Legislature from the consolidation movement’s leader, Andrew Haswell Green, has no mention of schools or city planning — or a right to shelter. Outer-borough voters, whose approval by referendum was required for consolidation, barely assented. Kings County passed the proposal by just 50.1%; Flushing voted no.Voters understood they were joining something bigger — but losing important controls.
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