After receiving citizen input through public hearings and other means over the last two weeks, the County is unveiling proposed new boundary lines for Clark County Commission districts and seeking more input at a public meeting Wednesday, July 6 at 6 p.m.
The meeting will be held in the Commission Chambers at the Clark County Government Center at 500 S. Grand Central Parkway in downtown Las Vegas. It also will be cablecast live on Clark County Television (CCTV) Channel 4 and streamed live over the Internet at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov.
Then the public will have another opportunity to review the proposed changes and provide comment about them during an open house at the Government Center in the first-floor Rotunda July 7-8 and July 11-15 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The changes also will be available online at the County website at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov. Comments may be provided either at the open house or via email at redistricting@ClarkCountyNV.gov.
The information collected from the public is being provided to the Clark County Commission, which is expected to vote on the new boundaries later this summer. The July 6 public meeting and the subsequent open house follow workshops held June 13, 15 and 22 to get input from citizens about how they thought the current boundaries of the County’s seven Commission districts should be redrawn.
The redistricting process is undertaken every 10 years following the national Census in order to comply with state law, which requires commission districts to be nearly equal in population. Rapid growth in population over the last decade has resulted in great variations in population across the County’s seven commission districts. For instance, Vice Chair Steve Sisolak’s District A in the Southeast, the County’s largest, has 361,871 residents, while Commissioner Lawrence Weekly’s District D in the middle part of the County, the smallest district, has 45-percent fewer residents with 200,586.
Redistricting is meant to resolve these imbalances and each of the County’s seven commission districts will end up with about 285,000 residents.
