During a meeting last week, Plains Township resident Gerald Cross respectfully urged Luzerne County’s Government Study Commission to reconsider its recommendation to reduce the size of council from 11 to seven members.
The commission has been assessing potential county home rule charter changes and aims to place its proposal on the November 2025 ballot. Voters will then decide whether to accept the new design or keep the system in effect since January 2012.
Cross thoroughly understands the charter because he was executive director of the Pennsylvania Economy League when it served as a consultant to the commission of citizens that drafted it. A nonpartisan/nonprofit public policy organization, the league is serving as a consultant for the current commission, although Cross has retired and spoke last week as a resident/taxpayer…