If Ray Shannon had his druthers, city commissioners would simply drop their plans for an upcoming advisory election to help them determine the size of Iola’s next governing body. That’s because state law already has a mechanism in place to implement an eight-member city council — which Shannon contends best fits the city’s needs — in April 2011, as a result of last year’s vote to disband the current form of government.
The default form could be rejected, though, if the current three-man commission uses home rule powers to adopt another form of city government before that…
Shannon: 8 fits Iola best
