Monday, July 21, 2014
YOUNGSTOWN
Mayor John A. McNally will sponsor legislation to have city council at its Monday meeting adopt a redistricting map of the city’s seven wards proposed by the Mahoning County Board of Elections.
There may be a few tweaks to the map when council meets at 5 p.m. Wednesday with board Director Joyce Kale-Pesta to discuss it, McNally said. But the map, given July 8 by the board to city officials, “takes care of the most important point of mostly equalizing the population in the seven wards,” he said.
Council, on summer recess, has scheduled a special meeting at noon Monday with McNally’s redistricting legislation to be on the agenda.
“From what I’ve heard, [the map] is nothing that can’t be worked out between council and the board of elections,” McNally said.
The city is supposed to redistrict after every decennial census but hasn’t done so for more than 30 years.
A new map would be in place for the 2015 council races and would take effect after that year’s election.
Read more about the plans in Tuesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.