Mountain Home will host a public meeting on legislative redistricting in the state. The meeting will be conducted by the Arkansas Board of Apportionment (ABA) and is one of eight such meetings the ABA is holding around the state.
The Mountain Home meeting will be held Tuesday night from 6:30 to 8 at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center on the campus of Arkansas State University-Mountain Home. The meeting is aimed at answering questions, adressing concerns and recieving suggestions from local community members.
The ABA is comprised of the governor, attorney general and secretary of state and is in charge of redrawing the district boundaries of the 35 state Senate and 100 state House of Representative seats later this year, based on the 2020 census.
Experts from all the three offices making up the board will be on hand Tuesday night to answer questions.
Former state Supreme Court Justice Betty Dickey is serving as the panel’s redistricting coordinator. Dickey says the board’s goals in redistricting are, “Creating districts that are substantially equal in population, geographically contiguous and compact; preserving cores of existing districts and communities of interest; recognizing geographic boundaries; and ensuring redistricting is not based on racial gerrymandering or political partisanship.”
Comment forms will provided at each meeting and an online version is available here.
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