The boundaries of the new ward for Calmit City Aldermen were unanimously approved on Thursday as the city council agreed to map to prepare seven wards slightly based on the population fall of about 2,000 people and the change in density between central wards.
According to a public discussion of the map led by the city’s Attorney Michael Casper, each ward has only more than 5,000 residents and the main changes include the boundaries of the middle wards north side of the city.
After approving the map by the city council, Mayor Thadius Jones said, “Thank you and thank each Alderman for his work on it.”
New maps will be posted online soon, officials said, but the maps presented to a pack house on Thursday are similar to the existing maps.
In response to the increased density in the 4th ward north, he loses a few less populated grounds in the 7th ward of the city, he said. It also takes some blocks from the 2nd ward, a district that now appears as a large class, its side is neatly row against the 1 and 4th ward. The 6H ward cites some land up to the 7th ward seven south of the city, while the 1, 3 and 5th wards appear almost unchanged.
A map showing the proposed ward boundaries during Thursday’s meeting. (Hank Sanders/Daily Southtown)
For an example, how little these boundaries have changed, the vote was unanimous, which is generally rare for major votes, but especially difficult to come to Calumet City where there are often quarrels on laws.
“I have been doing this for 25 years. This is the first unanimous plan with which I have ever been involved, ”Michael Casper said in a comment of 60 people at the Special Council meeting.
Some residents shared their frustrations about one aspect of redistribution, stating that the city council recently called an emergency meeting to review the map on Sunday afternoon in a conflict with the NFL Playoff Game.
“There were three people here,” said Darryl Juster, a resident of Kalumate City.
He said that he was not only disappointed because the meeting was called with a short notice and participated poorly, and said that the city still did not provide a block by block explanation of border changes.
When the Mayor responded to his comments with a question, Jester argued with Jones, and at a point after Jaster, referring to Jones to his first name and spoke on him, Jones removed him from the chamber.
Neither Jones or anyone else was able to give the reason for the schedule of the previous ward map meeting.
Residents supporting Juster’s comments impressed many of his concerns when Casper went on television screen showing the new ward map and asked some of them to call his address. Most saw that they were in the same ward and read the data and read that no ward was much larger than any other.
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