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August 22, 2013 Volume 18, No. 16 Southwest Austin’s Community Newspaper Since 1995
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Redistricting panel seeks input on map for Oak Hill district by Bobbie Jean Sawyer OAK HILL - The Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (ICRC), a fourteen-member group working to draw a map of ten single-member City Council districts, will hold a second public forum Wednesday, September 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Travis County Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Building. The forum is designed to gather feedback from residents of Precinct 3. The first forum was held last Wednesday, August 21, after the Gazette had gone to press. For coverage of that meeting go to the Oak Hill Gazette website at oakhillgazette.com. Commission member Magdalena Blanco said the commission considers specific information on neighborhoods and communities
when discussing district boundaries. “We really just listen to anything and everything citizens have to say that we feel are important factors in the area that we can take back with us for decision-making purposes,” Blanco said. Individuals planning to speak are asked to sign in before the meeting. All speakers will have three minutes to make their presentations to the commission. The ICRC was formed in light of the passage of Proposition 3, a City Charter amendment calling for more evenly distributed City Council geographical representation, in November 2012. The charter was modeled after a redistricting charter in San Diego and unlike anything in the history of Austin, Blanco said. See PANEL on back page
BACK TO SCHOOL Gazette:Emmeline R. Aguirre
Kennedy Godsey concentrates on a return for Bowie—volleyball season begins, p. 9.
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