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WGLT McLean County Board members voted Tuesday evening to keep the current structure of the board as the once-a-decade redistricting process moves forward.
The McLean County Board voted 17-3 in a special meeting Tuesday evening to keep the board s existing structure of 10 county board districts with two members per district.
The decision followed weeks of maneuvering and sometimes strident rhetoric about the effects of proposals to either expand the number of districts, or to reduce the number to five. Republicans Jim Soeldner, George Wendt, and Lyndsay Bloomfield voted against the resolution.
During discussion, Wendt portrayed the five-district proposal not as Democrats had claimed a way to create districts with higher percentages of Republican votes but rather as having rural issues heard and understood because constituents from both areas would be part of the districts.
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A McLean County Board member says the county and Bloomington-Normal hospitals are administering COVID-19 vaccines as fast as they can, but distribution from the state has been inconsistent.
Susan Schafer, who chairs the board’s Health Committee, said during Thursday’s county board meeting that nearly all the vaccines the county receives are in arms within a week.
“It’s not that the health department is moving slowly, or that any of our partner health providers are moving slowly, which I have seen on social media and the impression that people in the public have,” said Schafer, who also serves on the county s Board of Health.