Romulus City Council members will have a lighter meeting schedule beginning July 1 of next year.A ballot proposal to amend the city charter provisions reducing the number of monthly meetings from three to two each month was approved by a nearly 2 to 1 margin by voters on Tuesday. The question was the only local issue on the Feb. 27 presidential primary ballot.Voters approved the change with 2.082 yes votes or 62.65 percent of the ballots cast while no votes totaled 1,241 or 37.35 percent of the votes recorded. The totals were the unofficial results provided by the office of the city clerk. Of the total 3,323 votes cast, 100 were by early voters while 1.071 were cast on Election Day. Absentee voters totaled 2,152 on the question according to information from the clerk’s office.The amendment becomes effective July 1, 2024.Romulus voters selected Joe Biden as the top Democratic presidential candidate with 1,813 votes and Donald Trump as the Republican candidate with 1,007 votes. Biden received 84,96 percent of the Democratic votes while Trump was the choice of 82,81 percent of Republican primary election voters. There were 2,134 votes cast on the Democratic ballot and 1,12 votes on the Republican primary election ballot.
