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Show Reapportionment Committee to Change Districts Utah County Reapportionment Reapportion-ment Committee organized and began its work of designating four Senatorial and nine Representative Repre-sentative Districts to conform with the recent law passed1 by the Utah State Legislature calling call-ing for reapportionment of Legislative Leg-islative Districts within Utah County. Utah County gains one new State Senator and one new State Representative in the new apportionment ap-portionment plan. Committee members include Laird Billings, Orem, elected as Chairman of the Committee, Claudius Stevenson, County Republican Re-publican party chairman, Pay-son; Pay-son; Grant F. Wightman, County Coun-ty Democratic Party chairman, Provo. Also included on the committee are two legislators, Representative Howard C. Niel-son Niel-son and Senator Ernest H. Dean. Guidelines established by the committee in their first meeting meet-ing include (1) to hold a public meeting prior to finalizing action ac-tion on the reapportionment plan, wherein the committee could receive input from any citizen, community or group; (2) to make all Legislative Districts Dis-tricts as nearly equal in population popul-ation as is possible without breaking voting district boundaries. boun-daries. The Committee plans to conclude con-clude its work prior to Jan. 1, 1972. |