Town supervisors to adjust county votes
By Donna Comella

Population figures from the 2000 Census will be the basis for recalculating your town supervisor's vote at the county level.

With each of the 15 supervisors having a weighted vote based on his/her town's population, Arcadia Supervisor Joe DeSanto has now carries a 610 in simple majority votes. The town with the smallest weighted vote is Savannah, with 83. The 15 supervisors have a total 3999 votes, with 2000 needed for a simple majority. (The figures for a two-thirds majority vote vary slightly.)

The Wayne County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. on April 16 before adopting a new weighted voting schedule. Arcadia will weigh in with 630 for its population of 14,889.

The Town of Lyons now has a vote of 287, and that will go down to 265. Palmyra will also see a lower number - from 360 to 351. The other towns see numbers the same or, as in Arcadia's case, just slightly higher.

The new total for the county's population of 93,765 will be 4,225, with 2113 votes needed to adopt simple majority votes. The 4,225 total is a 5.2 percent increase, which reflects the same increase in population from 1990 to 2000.

For a closer look at county government and a look at the current weighted vote, click here.

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