About 10,000 Lexington residents will receive a postcard this week urging them to apply for the city’s first-ever civic assembly to decide if changes should be made to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government’s charter, which dictates everything from council term limits to redistricting.
The application process will be open until Dec. 31, said Kit Anderson, deputy director of Civic Lex, which is organizing and overseeing Lexington’s first-ever civic assembly.
The 10,000 residents who receive the postcard were randomly selected. Those who apply to be part of the March civic assembly will be selected through a lottery process. The 36-people selected will be a cross-section or representation of Lexington, said Richard Young, the executive director of Civic Lex…