JAMESTOWN – The newly appointed Jamestown Reapportionment Commission has started the process of redrawing the city’s district lines.
According to a report in the Post-Journal, committee members met on Monday and began making plans to tackle the reapportionment. The commission elected Marie Carrubba to serve as its chair. It is charged with making minimal changes to city ward lines to bring them into compliance with data from the 2010 census. Ward 3 reportedly shows the biggest disparity in population, as its population is 524 below the ward average of 5,183. The wards populations need to be within 2 percent of that number.
Officials say the process shouldn’t take much time because minimal changes need to be made to even out the numbers. The commission will discuss possible reapportionment scenarios when it meets again next Monday, May 6.
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