The map has no at-large districts.
The map shows how Republican State Senators Bill Cowsert and Frank Ginn intend Athens to elect public officials--with no super district commissioners.
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Elected officials weigh in on Athens Clarke County's plan.
Which will it be? Republican Representative Doug McKillips’s plan for redistricting Athens or a plan endorsed by local residents and elected officials? We should find out next week. We may continue to have four districts on each side of the river and two large districts representing four smaller districts. Or, if McKillip’s plan is adopted, we will have ten newly drawn districts. The Superdistricts don’t dilute minority voting strength. That was the finding of a hastily appointed and turbo-charged committee of local citizens who spent a few weeks in late fall studying the county’s district representation system. The Athens Clarke County Commission voted nine to one at last night’s commission meeting to accept the committee’s findings. The …
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General Assembly to redraw legislative, congressional districts in August.
Here's a play-by-play of the state's first hearing by the Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Committee, which began at 5 p.m. 6:54 - Sen. Mitch Seabaugh is closing the hearings out, promising an "open process," and the "opportunity to participate." 6:52 - Two Athens Democrats, Ovita Thornton (who serves on the Clarke County Board of Education) and Karen Solheim, wrap up the hearings. Thornton asks for future hearings to be scheduled later in the day, while Solheim hopes that the committees will take tonight's comments to heart when they draw maps in August. 6:45 - Still on break at Seney-Stovall Chapel, while legislators run the clock out on the 7 p.m. end time. Kelli Persons, who works for the League of Women Voters of Georgia…
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Rebecca McCarthy
3:34 pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Because our tiny county is so densely settled. That was the number decided on when the city council and the county commission merged in 1990 to form the unified government. A small city feel, where you know your commissioner, with a large county efficiency, they say. more ›