Complex sentence: With the eight council members split over the choice of a successor, Mayor of Newark Cory A. Booker cast the deciding vote to choose Speight at a council meeting in which residents opposed to Booker's vote took vocal issue with his decision.
Split into simpler sentences: With the eight council members split over the choice of a successor, Mayor of Newark Cory A. Booker cast the deciding vote. At the council meeting residents opposed to Booker's vote took vocal issue with his decision.