Colorado’s Reapportionment Commission (charged with drawing our state legislative districts) continues the summer schedule of meetings and hearing of public testimony this week in Denver.

Last week’s meeting (13 June) discussed the preliminary district maps for state House and Senate districts for Region 2 (Eastern Plains) - public testimony on districts in that region actually occurred a week earlier, on 6 June.  Interestingly, unlike the split decision on drawing boundaries for southern Colorado districts, the commission unanimously approved a preliminary map for House districts (11-0) but voted 6-5 to delay completing a preliminary Senate district map until after public testimony from Weld County (scheduled for one week from today, on 27 June).

(Click here to view preliminary map for Region 2 House districts - HD63 & 64)

This week’s meeting will likely introduce new preliminary maps for Colorado’s Western Slope districts (public testimony on those districts took place last week, on 13 June).  The commission is also scheduled to hear public testimony on central Colorado districts (Custer, Clear Creek, Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, Gilpin, Park, and Teller Counties) starting at 2PM in the Legislative Services Building (Hearing Room A) on 200 East 14th Avenue, Denver CO 80203 (which is located just across the street to the south of the Colorado state Capitol building).  The hearing will also be broadcast over the Internet for those unable to attend in person.  (View meeting agenda here)

Click here for the full schedule of upcoming hearings on state legislative districts.
Additional information is also available on the Reapportionment Commission website.

Additional references:

• Constitutional Provisions Controlling Reapportionment/Redistricting (state government website which collates relevant constitutional language on Congressional redistricting and state legislative reapportionment)

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P.S. an interesting footnote - the Colorado Reapportionment Commission on Friday (17 June) issued a Request For Proposal (RFP) seeking legal counsel ” to advise and guide the Commission throughout the reapportionment process and to provide appellate representation, if necessary.”

This would seem to indicate that the commission expects that Colorado’s state legislative district maps will be joining our Congressional district maps in going to the courts…

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