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Duquesne Seeks Write-Ins for Home Rule Board
Mayor encourages residents to seek seats on study commission
By Tom Leturgey
The Tube City Almanac
October 04, 2024
Posted in: Duquesne News
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Duquesne needs additional people to serve on a committee to study a home-rule charter and city officials are urging interested residents to run as write-ins in the November election.
Mayor R. Scott Adams said four residents are running to serve on the commission in the Nov. 5 election but additional people will be needed to fill the remaining three seats on the seven-member board.
The committee would serve for a year and would recommend whether or not the city should scrap its current form of government for a new, more flexible home-rule charter.
Currently, the city is governed by the state’s third-class city code, which can only be altered by the state legislature. A home-rule charter can be changed and amended by residents and city council.
McKeesport, Monroeville and Mt. Lebanon are among local home-rule municipalities.
The city has scheduled an informational Town Hall meeting to further discuss the committee at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 15.
The Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development, or DCED, oversees the home-rule process.
The study commission would have nine months to recommend that no changes be made, or up to 18 months to recommend a home-rule charter to replace the city code.
If the committee does recommend that Duquesne adopt a home-rule charter, the process would still have a way to go. Voters would have to approve the final document, and the earliest that it could be on the ballot would be the general election on Nov. 3, 2026.
Adams urged anyone interested who is not on the ballot to run a write-in campaign.
Tom Leturgey is a freelance writer based in Pittsburgh and the editor of KSWA Digest, the online news and features home of the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance. His work also appears in The Valley Mirror and other publications.
Originally published October 04, 2024.
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