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Commissioners ask staff to study districting options, costs and civic-assembly approaches before setting a committee
Summary
The Board directed staff to produce comparative cost and timeline estimates for three committee-formation options to draw commissioner districts, including a civic-assembly-style process and lower-cost hybrid approaches; staff will return with estimates and mailing options.
Deschutes County commissioners on April 16 directed staff to research costs, timelines and design choices for forming a committee to create commissioner districts and to return with options to consider at a subsequent work session.
Staff presented three broad approaches: (a) a locally appointed committee (various appointment mixes by elected officials), (b) the state home-rule charter committee approach and (c) a civic assembly, modeled after a recent citizens’ assembly pilot that used a…
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