Mountain Home will play host to one of eight public meetings conducted by the Arkansas Board of Apportionment (ABA) on legislative redistricting in the state.
The meeting will take place Tuesday evening, August 3, from 6:30 to 8 at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center on the campus of Arkansas State University-Mountain Home.
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 the three offices making up the board will attend.
Former state Supreme Court Justice Betty Dickey is serving as the panel’s redistricting coordinator and says the “hearings are open for questions, concerns and suggestions from local community members.”
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 are available will provided at each meeting and an online version is available here.
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