On This Day: 23 October 1998

Option 1: All city council members are at-large positions (without ward residency requirements). This means city council members can be elected from anywhere by anyone as long as they are within city limits. Option 2: Each city council member comes from a different ward (equal population partition of the city), but the election is at large (anyone from any ward can vote for the council member). Option 3: Each city council member comes from a different ward (equal population partition of the city) voted in by people who live in that ward. There are no at-large positions. Option 4: A specified number of city council members come from different wards voted in by their ward members, and a specified number of at-large council members (citizens elected by citizens regardless of ward residency).