Committee Created to Study Redistricting Avon Lake's Wards

Avon Lake’s three at-large councilmen who represent citizens citywide, have been appointed to a newly created Ward Redistricting Ad Hoc Committee.

Avon Lake Councilmen Dan Bucci, Marty O’Donnell and Greg Zilka will serve on the committee to determine what steps should be taken next in redistricting the city’s wards. The committee was formerly approved at the June 27 council meeting.

At the June 20 meeting, two suggestions were made for redistricting the city’s four wards. The first proposed map, created by a graduate student interning with the city, was made with the intention of remaining independent of how redistricting would affect current council members after the next election.

Wards 1, 2, 3 and 4 are up for election in November. At large council seats are not affected by redistricting.

 That map would have placed current Ward 4 councilman David Kos into Ward 3 and once the wards were redistricted in July 2012.

A second proposed map would have realigned the wards so that Kos, who lives on Redwood Boulevard, would remain in Ward 3 next July.

Questions were raised how that could affect residents who could then find themselves in the same situation that Kos is currently in.

The ad hoc committee will meet at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 9,  in the Council Conference room (upstairs). The meeting is open to the public.