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Commission on Redistricting Meets September 2 at 5 p.m.

For Immediate Release: Monday, August 30, 2021

ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 30, 2021—The eighth meeting of the Commission on Redistricting will take place via Zoom on Thursday, Sep. 2 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. and will be livestreamed on the Montgomery County Council's Facebook page.

The Commission on Redistricting was established after the confirmation of 11 appointed members by the Council on Jan. 26. In the 2020 general election, the Montgomery County Charter was amended by the voters to require the County to be divided into seven Council districts to elect seven district and four at-large members of the Council. The Charter required that the Council appoint a Commission on Redistricting composed of 11 registered voters who reside in the County.

The eighth meeting of the Commission on Redistricting will begin with greetings by Commission Chair Mariana Cordier and will be followed by approval of the meeting minutes from Aug. 11. Then, the meeting will continue with an update regarding census data availability.

This will be followed by the Commissioner’s report on outreach meeting attendance and a discussion of upcoming meetings on the subject. The meeting will end with a discussion on the development of maps for the Commission’s consideration, as well as a tentative schedule for both the report and the final map’s completion, which are both due to the Council no later than Nov. 15, 2021.

The members of the Commission on Redistricting are as follows: Imad Aldean Ahmad, Laura Ard, Mariana Cordier, Keshia Desir, Arthur Edmunds, Valerie Ervin, Bruce Goldensohn, Jason Makstein, Nilmini Rubin, Samuel Statland, and David Stein.

Residents can view the meeting on the Council's Facebook page (@MontgomeryCountyMdCouncil).

The full agenda for this meeting can be viewed here.

Meeting minutes for this meeting will be available here at a later date.

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Release ID: 21-339
Media Contact: Pamela Dunn 240-777-7940, Lucia Jimenez 240-777-7932