JAMESTOWN – the Jamestown City Council has given its unanimous approval to new ward boundary lines that will bring the city’s ward populations into compliance with the 2010 census. The reapportionment plan, which involves minimal changes was drawn up by the city’s reapportionment commission over the course of three meetings by various city officials and appointed residents. City councilman and commission member Tony Dolce says the new boundary lines will comes very close to getting total number of people within each ward as equal as possible.
The changes between wards are: 225 people will be moved from Ward 1 to Ward 2, 167 from Ward 2 to Ward 3, 71 from Ward 5 to Ward 3 and 77 from Ward 6 to Ward 1. The ward boundaries wont go into effect until the 2013 election.
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