Committee to take up issue of new supervisory district maps for Winnebago County

For all those following or interested in size of the Winnebago County Board: The Winnebago County Judiciary and Public Safety Committee will be meeting on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 9 a.m. to take up the new supervisory district maps, which would take effect in 2008.

As many of you know, in September, the county board voted to reduce its size by two, thus taking action before citizens could, by petition, put a referendum on the April 2007 ballot to reduce the size of the board by half - from 38 to 19. The next step in the process is to redraw district boundaries.

The link for the committee agenda is :

http://www.co.winnebago.wi.us/countyclerk/docs/jca061128.pdf. The meeting will be held at the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, 4311 Jackson St., in the first floor Community Room. This meeting is open to the public.

Meanwhile, as you may be aware, last week the full county board voted 24-12 to support a resolution sponsored by supervisor Donna Lohry to repeal the relatively new law which allows citizens or a county board itself to reduce, once every 10 years, the size of the county board. Tony Palmeri has blogged about why he believes the law is bad policy and should be repealed. This issue will also be the subject of a future episode of "Eye on Oshkosh."