Redistricting meeting time change

The final redistricting meeting scheduled for June 29 will be held at 5 p.m. rather than 6 p.m. The meeting will still take place in the Mono County Board of Supervisors’ Chambers in the Sierra Center Mall.

After a series of public meetings and deliberations about how to best redraw Mono County’s five supervisorial districts, the County Redistricting Committee has narrowed the field of choices from 16 to 4.

Another four are still in play (and can be seen on the County’s website), but are not being pursued further according to Committee Chairman Bob Peters.

The Committee was formed in the wake of the 2010 Census, which showed enough population shifts to warrant redistricting. Much of the dilemma comes down to population centers. With much of the county’s geographic area unpopulated, only 500 of Mono’s 3,000 census blocks are actually inhabited.

For more on the latest status of Mono County’s redistricting process, read Radical Radial from last week’s Sheet.