County staff pitch regional redistricting model to share human-services workload

Feb 3, 2026

Arapahoe County human-services staff presented a regional redistricting proposal to redistribute work across counties to improve equity and quality-assurance in public-assistance programs and flagged cost-containment and fraud-prevention as central sticking points.

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Dan Mikkelki, Arapahoe County human-services director, briefed commissioners on a county-developed redistricting model intended to share caseloads and quality-assurance across counties. The plan aims to equalize public-assistance responsibility and to address uneven fraud-prevention capacity among smaller counties.

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