Gary Mayor Jerome Prince is seeking assistance from the Indiana legislature after the City Council failed to approve a redistricting plan by the Dec. 31 deadline.
Mayor Jerome Prince said he has reached out to State Rep. Timothy Wesco, R-Mishawaka, chairman of the House Elections Committee and State Sen. J.D. Ford, D-Wayne Township, ranking minority member of the Senate Elections Committee to seek a legislative solution to the failure to redistrict.He said he does not know what that solution may look like but could possibly include an extended deadline for the council to act and complete the map.
Currently District 1 has 12,437 residents; District 2 has 12,153; District 3 has 12,009; District 4 has 11,607, District 5 has 9,651 and District 6 has 11,250. The city had more than 100 precincts when it was last redistricted in 2010 compared to 49 larger precincts today, he said. Prince told local legislators he reached out to the chairs of the election committees to ask for assistance in resolving the issue as quickly as possible.
Kochevar said according to state statutes, second class cities such as Gary need districts that are generally contiguous, reasonably compact and do not cross precinct lines. Those districts also need to contain as equal population as possible. What equal population means can be subjective, but generally, he said precincts should have about 10% deviation.
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