On Friday's News Hit: - Despite pushback, layoffs are coming to the Ann Arbor Public Schools district in an attempt to balance a $25 million budget deficit. - When police found twin sisters who had run away from home, they were with a 30-year-old man with a criminal background. - Gusts of 45-50 mph are possible today as rain continues to fall.
Hunt, known for impacting the lives of countless students during his 41 years of teaching, died on April 2 after a three-year battle with brain cancer. He was 66.
The overarching sentiment from the public comment period was the same – don’t divide my community into more than one political district.
Michigan voters passed a constitutional amendment creating the MICRC in 2018, and taking the power of drawing new political district maps out of the partisan hands of state lawmakers in the Lansing Capitol.
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70 residents attended Michigan Citizen Redistricting Committee s (MICRC) first public hearing Tuesday night in Jackson in-person to deliver public comment. Michael Smith repeated a sentiment that was shared often: boundaries between new political districts shouldn’t cut through existing school districts.
Several commenters told the commission that keeping school districts in the same political district should be the organizing principle of the new district maps for Congress and the state legislature.