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Sunday, January 11, 2015

School Board Redistricting Update


Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah.  January 7, 2015.  School Board Redistricting should be done by the end of February according to County Commissioner Bill Cox.    They have been creating large maps based on census data using Automatic Geographic  Reference Center software.  Cox said that they sent Bryce Huefner’s maps to AGRC to produce large maps the committee can use.  They have used  legislative researchers who are working with interactive maps so that boundary lines can be drawn and redrawn as possible solutions are discussed.  The committee will meet at the end of January and will have two more meetings in February.  One of the criteria the committee is looking at is at registered voters and where the most children live although, by law, the only criteria that can be used is census population data.  Many committee members are unhappy with the census data which shows Garden City with a larger population than other cities. But the redistricting based on census data is a state requirement.

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