Iola voters will decide Nov. 2 the fate of a charter ordinance to put in place a five-member city commission in April.
Petitions to force the referendum had more than enough valid signatures, Allen County Clerk Sherrie Riebel said Tuesday. “They had 103 signatures and 87 were of registered voters,” she said, or 38 more than the 49 required to force an election.
The referendum will be Iola’s third in 19 months regarding its governance.
Iolans in April 2009 voted to disband the city’s existing three-member commission and in April of this year, in a…
