(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Board of Supervisors, today (Wednesday) approved by a vote of 4-to 1, a Resolution accepting Reprecincting Ordinance #28. Districts are established after each census. Each District is required to be equal in population. The plan was presented by Ryan Frederick with the Adair County Reprecincting Committee.

Frederick said the committee discussed a few different versions before they settled on the plan presented. He said most of their time was spent discussing how the City of Greenfield would fit into the latest precinct map in a way that makes sense.

He said in previous maps, the city was split with the residents in the southeast part of Adair County. Frederick said where possible, the committee tried to use township boundaries as the means to make the numbers fit. During a vote on the Resolution accepting the reprecincting plan, Jodie Hoadley was the lone no votes.

She asked Frederick prior to the vote, if they had not redistricted the City of Greenfield, would they had to have adjusted the other districts as much as the committee did. Fredericks said “Greenfield is where all the people live,” and the first draft they drew up, ended up with a tiny district, and voters from Bridgewater traveling all the way to Orient to vote, among other changes. He said essentially, “The Greenfield District had to shrink, because it had too many people.” The committee, he said actually came up with somewhere from eight to 10 maps before settling on the version that was sent to the Supervisors.

The Board set their meeting on Dec. 22^nd at 9:15-a.m., as the date and time for a public hearing on the Resolution before making the Ordinance official.