An ordinance for the reapportionment of magisterial district boundary lines was approved at Christian Fiscal Court Tuesday morning.
The court had voted at the last meeting to send the proposed reapportionment lines back to the commission that was formed to undertake the task for further review, and they did just that, presenting a new map Tuesday for approval. 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 districts in Christian County that saw the biggest changes were District 7, District 8 and District 1, with District 7 losing residents to the other two. This is because District 7 saw a population increase, so the lines had to adjust accordingly. District 7 Magistrate Russ Guffey thanked the commission for their hard work, saying it should help streamline voting precincts as well.
County Attorney Lincoln Foster read the ordinance, saying the districts are as equal as they can reasonably be.
The reapportionment district lines were approved on first-reading, and a second-reading must take place before it becomes law—that is set to take place at the next meeting of the fiscal court.
In other action, magistrates approved a change order for the Davis Road extension project. Judge-Executive Jerry Gilliam says the bulk of the funding for the project has come from the state, and this change order just adjusts something that was missed in the original plans.
The project has reconfigured the roadway on Davis Road, with CSX Railroad planning to remove the unsafe bridge structure sometime in the future.
New district lines
Prior district lines