Boisterous crowd weighs in on Youngstown charter proposals

YOUNGSTOWN

At times, the crowd at the city charter-review committee’s public meeting was loud, impatient and more than willing to share their opinions.

And that was after voting on whether they agreed or disagreed with only the first of 17 proposed charter amendments.

But the group of about 100 settled down for the most part at Tuesday’s public meeting at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor.

“I guess we kind of expected that,” said Jerome Williams, the committee’s chairman. “But it was a good meeting.”

Before the discussion of the proposed amendments, Phil Kidd, a committee member who ran the meeting, said the group had made 17 recommendations it was going to forward to city council.

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