Alaska Redistricting Board Finishes Proposed Redistricting Plan Today [Update with Map Links]

Although the Board had scheduled meetings until tomorrow to get the plan done, they surprised everyone - themselves included I think - by agreeing to two maps.  That allows for two Anchorage versions and two Fairbanks versions.  

They had 30 days from receiving the official Census data to complete the job.  They also expect third parties to submit plans as well - some full state plans and some for specific areas.  Those are due in by next Friday.  

At this point the maps are in the staffs computers.  I was able to get a couple of pictures, but you can't see much detail, but I offer them here.

The whole state.

Anchorage area.

Fairbanks area. 

The Board should be posting individual maps for each district by Saturday, I think they said.  There was discussion about the time it takes to convert shape files to pdf files and they need to do 40 for each version.  Well, maybe they can do one version of most of the state (geographically) and then two sets for Anchorage's 22 districts and two sets for Fairbank's five or so districts.  

There was a lot of interesting interactions today that I'll discuss in another post.  I'm impressed with the Board's ability to work through conflicts and to do it on the record, not behind closed doors.  A lot of credit goes to the chair, John Binkley.  And also to the Board members who have the skills to air their concerns respectfully and clearly.  

More later.  

[UPDATE September 9, 2021 9:15 pm:  The Board has posted some maps that appear to cover all the new districts.  As I understood it there are two versions of Anchorage and Fairbanks.  You can see them all here.  They two versions are labeled "Board Composite 1" and "Board Composite 2."  What that refers to are the versions that were approved by the whole Board.  Other versions were done by individual Board members and had names of the person who did them.]