Colorado’s Reapportionment Commission (charged with drawing our state legislative districts) meets in Denver today to hear public testimony on state legislative district boundaries in a final marathon round (covering six metro Denver counties) today (11 July) in Denver.

This week’s meeting will introduce new preliminary maps for Larimer & Weld County districts (public testimony on those districts took place earlier, on 27 June).  The commission is also scheduled to hear public testimony on six metro Denver county (Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, and Jefferson county districts starting at 11AM, and Arapahoe and Denver county  districts 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)

The commission’s most recent meeting (27 June) discussed the preliminary district maps for state House and Senate districts for Region 4 (central Colorado - Custer, Clear Creek, Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, Gilpin, Park, and Teller Counties - public testimony on districts in that region actually occurred a week earlier, on 20 June).

According to the Colorado Springs Gazette’s report on Monday’s meeting,

Democrats won both rounds at the reapportionment commission meeting on Monday, when their maps for the state House and Senate were approved with the help of two of the five Republican commissioners.

Although the count differed by one vote, the ultimate outcome was the same:

The Democrats’ Senate map was approved 8-3, with two Republicans in support, and the Democrats’ House map passed 7-4, with one Republican in support. The commission’s unaffiliated chairman, Mario Carrera, sided with Democrats both times.

(Click here to view preliminary map for Region 4 Senate districts)

(Click here to view preliminary map for Region 4 House districts)

Click here for the full schedule of public 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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