{"id":7516,"date":"2011-06-09T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2011-06-09T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:18:53","slug":"commissioner-seeks-community-input-on-redistricting-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7516","title":{"rendered":"Comm. Seeks Public Input On Redistrict- ing Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<br \/>\nSentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are meetings underway to redefine the districts of the Hillsborough County Commission. Public meetings are being held to allow citizens to share their comments and concerns about the new boundaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commissioner Les Miller, Jr<\/strong>., who represents District 3, is calling on any citizens who are concerned about the redistricting to attend the meetings to air their concerns and have their questions answered.<\/p>\n<p>The second Redistricting Public Hearing will take place Thursday  (today) in the County Commission Board Room, beginning at 6 p.m. The  final meeting, at which time the redistricting map will be adopted, will  take place on Monday, June 20th, beginning at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in reviewing copies of proposed maps and other  redistricting materials can visit\u00a0  http:\/\/www.hillsboroughcounty.org\/redistricting.<strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to hear from anyone with a concern about the future of District 3 to let me know about your concerns. This is not about <strong>Les Miller, Jr.<\/strong>, it is about the future of the District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main concern is that we don\u2019t have any more of a regression in District 3 than we have right now. We currently have 39% to 40%, and I\u2019m not supporting any maps that take away from that percentage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen only 7 maps so far and I\u2019m sure there will be many others before the final adoption at the June 20th meeting. <strong>Four of those were drawn by the staff and I can\u2019t support any of them because they divide Progress Village. But I\u2019m not making any decision until I see all of the maps.<\/strong><strong>[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Currently, there are meetings underway to redefine the districts of the Hillsborough County Commission. Public meetings are being held to allow citizens to share their comments and concerns about the new boundaries. Commissioner Les Miller, Jr., who represents District 3, is calling on any citizens who are concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}