Christian Fiscal Court is considering the proposed reapportionment for the magisterial districts, but they’ve asked for the commission in charge of compiling the data to take another look at the lines.
Reapportionment is a process that must, by law, take place every ten years, and it considers the population of each district from the ten-year census and realigns the district lines to reflect population increase or decrease. The 2020 reapportionment was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but that process is underway now, with a commission reviewing that data and figuring out where the lines should lay.
Nikki Chambers served on that commission and says that the biggest changes were to District 7 and District 5, and District 1 also saw some changes.
The other districts stayed fairly unchanged from the current district maps. District 7 Magistrate Russ Guffey made a motion to send the proposed maps back to the commission for further review, saying he just wants to make sure all options have been examined.
Magistrate Phillip Peterson further clarified that it’s not the numbers they want explained, it’s the proposed lines on the map itself.
The motion to send it back to the commission was approved unanimously.
In other action, magistrates approved a request from the City of Oak Grove to annex some property in the 1300 block of Hugh Hunter Road in to the city limits of Oak Grove. The move is to make way for new residential properties.
Current districts
Proposed Districts