Supervisors to Nominate/Randomly Select Members for Redistricting Committee

March 11, 2011

Twenty six residents submitted applications to be either nominated or randomly selected for appointment at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting to an 11-member advisory group to make recommendations on how to draw Tulare County’s Supervisorial district boundaries.

Supervisorial districts are redrawn every ten years based on population counts collected by the United States Census. The 2010 Census data was released March 8, 2011.

The Redistricting Advisory Committee is charged with developing criteria to be applied during the redistricting process and developing proposals to be presented to the Board of Supervisors.  The committee will also conduct outreach meetings in various parts of Tulare County to solicit public input.  The Redistricting Advisory Committee will present their final report to the Board of Supervisors by August 1, 2011.

“We are pleased with the countywide interest to participate in this important process,” said Mike Ennis, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.

Chairman Ennis credits the February 22 redistricting forum held in Visalia for the high level of interest.

On Tuesday during Board of Supervisors matters, each Supervisor will nominate one person from their district for appointment. The remaining names from each district will be placed in a separate box and randomly selected. After that, all remaining names will be placed in one box and one at-large member will be randomly selected. All nominations and random selection for each seat on the committee will receive final approval at the March 22, 2011 Board of Supervisors meeting.

The application process began in early February and closed March 8, 2011. The applicants are:

District One:

Newell Bringhurst
Bernice Doan
Jacqueline Fletcher
Glenn Morris
A.G. Peterson
Maria Santos-Silva
Terry Thompson
Pamela Whitmire

District Two:

John Hobbs
Genoveva Islas
Marie Macedo
Mike Watson

District Three:

Trilby Lea Barton
Phillip C. Bourdette
Mary L. Burbery
Gary Dill
Luke Feldstein
Russ Hanson
Darlene Mata
Stephen Peck
Lita Reid

District Four:

Maggie Florez
Lewis Earl Mann

District Five:

Katie Black
Michael Carley
Richard Eckhoff