"With the release of drafts of new Congressional and legislative boundary lines, the commission will hold 11 public meetings this month from San Diego to Sacramento. It took the commission 23 meetings over two months to get to this point.
'We are going back into our communities to continue this dialogue with the public,' chairman Gino Aguirre said. 'There are probably more things we could work on given more time, and we are giving ourselves more time. The purpose of providing these maps (so early) is for that specific purpose.'
The commission's next landmark will come July 7, when it releases a second draft that includes the number for each district. The numbering matters particularly for Senate districts, because odds and evens are elected in separate batches every other two years."
California redistricting commission turns to public for help
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