Citizens who attended a forum on the proposal to change Danville’s form of government heard from 3 of the plaintiffs from a 1987 Civil Rights lawsuit last night (Thursday). The forum at Danville Area Community College was hosted by a group which opposes the proposal to change to a city manager form of government. It came only hours after the group Moving Danville Forward filed its petitions seeking to get the question on the November ballot. The petitions were filed electronically Thursday afternoon.
Bashir Ali, one of the plaintiffs from the 1987 lawsuit which led to Danville’s current form of government, had a special message for those attending the DACC forum….
Ali, who now lives in Peoria, told the audience that the city manager form of government was one of the options on the table when a consent decree settlement was reached in the 1987 suit.
Nate Cunningham Senior, another of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, has doubts that changing to a city manager form of government would improve things…
Both opponents and supporters of the proposal to change to a city manager form of government say they will hold more public forums later.
