Board of County Commissioners Redistricting

Guiding Principles for Redistricting

Following a public hearing on August 4, 2021, the Board of Commissioners decided on the following principles to guide the redistricting of its electoral districts:

1. Equal population, as required by state and federal law;
2. Contiguity, as required by state law;
3. Compactness;
4. Recognizing communities of interest, to be defined by the Board following public input;
5. Keeping municipalities whole, to the extent possible;
6. Keeping precincts whole;
7. Avoiding pairing incumbents;
8. No political considerations;
9. Preserving the core of existing districts;
10. Anti-core preservation (i.e. ignore current districts and begins from a clean slate)

The Board of Commissioners directed its consultants to prepare three alternative proposed plans based on these adopted principles, with at least one "core preservation" plan and one "blank slate" plan.

Timeline

• Proposed plans will be presented to and considered by the BOCC on October 5, 2021.
• The Board will hold a public hearing on the proposed plans on October 19, 2021.
• The Board will select a final plan and adopt a resolution implementing that plan on November 3, 2021.