Beaver residents seek to change government structure to fight fracking

Beaver residents seek to change government structure to fight fracking

By DAVID SKOLNICK

skolnick@vindy.com

NORTH LIMA

A group of Beaver Township residents, who oppose fracking in their hometown, collected signatures on petitions to place a limited-home-rule initiative on the Nov. 6 ballot.

But the group, which started getting signatures only recently, isn’t leaving much room for error.

The group needs 296 valid signatures — a number equal to 10 percent of township voters in the 2010 gubernatorial election — on petitions to get the proposal on the ballot, and will turn in their petitions today to township trustees with fewer than 400 signatures, said Julie Fuhrman Davis, who organized the effort with Patti Gorcheff.

But Fuhrman Davis and Gorcheff said they made sure those who signed their petitions are registered voters and signed their legal signatures.

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