Portland Charter Commission elects leadership © WMTW image Michael Kebede and Shay Stewart-Bouley will serve as Chair and Vice Chair, respectively.
Portland’s newly sworn-in Charter Commission elected its leadership Monday night.
Michael Kebede will serve as chair. The attorney and ACLU of Maine Policy Counsel was elected in a 9-3 vote during the commission s first meeting. Sign up for our Newsletters
“The people we end up electing could, for all intents and purposes, be co-chairs. We could distribute power more evenly than whatever the people who wrote this statute were thinking,” Kebede said while asking commissioners to consider him for the role.
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