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Deschutes County to assign district seat numbers before public hearings; citizen warns precinct shifts could move neighborhoods between districts
Summary
Commissioners agreed to assign seat numbers for Map C before Jan. 20 public hearings and to use a third‑party bylaw/random selection process at their Jan. 15 retreat; a public commenter warned precinct boundary adjustments could shift the Coneflower neighborhood from District C to District B or create a split precinct.
Pete Shepherd (identified by the chair as the person with the blue‑sheet public comment) told the board that Map C’s precinct alignments raise a risk: if a county clerk adjusts precinct lines under the statute cited in the meeting record, the Coneflower neighborhood could be administratively moved from Precinct 2/District C into Precinct 25/District B, either creating a split precinct or transferring all residents and an incumbent commissioner into a different district.
Chair Chang and other…
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