Reducing the size of the membership of the Sangamon County Board is an exercise in reducing the level of representation with no apparent benefit to the citizens of the County. Politics aside, it is obvious that representation will be reduced under the false idea that you are saving money or reducing the size of government. The net effect of redrawing the "new" districts will be to cut minority representation in half AND reduce representation of members in rural districts. Further, rural districts resulting from a re-drawn map would sprawl across multiple communities. Where key rural issues...
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