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Board asks staff to study civic-assembly and lower-cost options for forming commissioner-districting committee
Summary
Commissioners asked staff to return with cost and timeline estimates for a civic-assembly-style selection process and lower-cost alternatives (postcards/online application, in-house facilitation) before deciding how to form a districting committee for potential ballot placement.
Deschutes County commissioners on April 16 directed staff to investigate options and costs for forming a citizen committee to draw commissioner districts, including a civic-assembly-style sortition and lower-cost alternatives, and to return with concrete cost and timeline estimates.
County staff presented three broad options: a locally appointed committee, a Home Rule Charter–style appointment mix, and a civic assembly (deliberative, sortition-based selection of representative citizens).…
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