OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAGuthrie County voters are two weeks away from heading to the polls and choosing how their Supervisors are elected.  Currently, Supervisors are elected by what’s called ‘plan 3,’  in which they’re voted on solely by the constituents in their assigned district. A committee of bipartisan, private citizens are suggesting that supervisors be elected from those same districts but that they be voted on at large, meaning by all eligible voters in the County instead of just those in their district. This idea is known in the Iowa Code as ‘plan 2.’ Steve Brannan is the chairman of the petitioning committee and says if voters choose to change the election method to plan 2, it could have a huge impact on the 2016 election. “If this plan does pass and we go to plan 2, then all five of the Supervisors are going to have to run in 2016. Then they have a drawing and two of them serve for an initial two-year term and three of them serve for a four-year term.”

Plan 2 has already received some endorsements from community organizations, including the Guthrie Center Development Group and Lake Panorama Association General Manager John Rutledge.

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