PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Districting Commission will gather at 1:30 p.m. today to make plans for the next three months with districting masters Gene Unger and Don Corson.
The five-member commission will discuss recently received Census information and plan a public participation process.
Today’s meeting will be in the Clallam County commissioners’ office at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
Unger, a former Clallam County county engineer, was hired as lead districting master March 22. He is responsible for recommending new boundaries for the county’s three districts based on Census 2010 data.
Don Corson, who started Camaraderie Cellars winery in 1992, is the No. 2 districting master.
Unger and Corson are also partners in Camaraderie Cellars.
Clallam County charter requires that the districts be divided by population, with boundaries that run north to south.
The largest district cannot exceed the population of the smallest district by more than 5 percent.
The charter requires the districting master to submit a draft proposal for the new districts to the commission by June 30.
“Don [Corson] and I are asking the districting commission to define the very things they want us to prepare in the way of getting ready for the public hearings and what they want them to look like,” Unger said.
“It’s more of a scheduling meeting, really.”
Public hearings are planned for Port Angeles, Sequim and Forks. Dates for those hearings have yet to be determined.
More detailed Census information was released about two weeks ago, said Unger, who chairs the county’s Permit Advisory Board and runs his own engineering firm.
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