Fair Districts PA to hold redistricting forum on Feb. 8

NORTH COVENTRY » The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Pottstown will host Fair Districts PA speaker Chuck Yeiser to explain PA’s current redistricting process and efforts to reform it.

The forum is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. and is open to the public. The church is located at 1565 S. Keim St, Pottstown, PA 19465

According to Fair Districts Pa., Pottstown has been divided among three state representative districts and two senate districts even though our state constitution specifically states “unless absolutely necessary no county, city, incorporated town, borough, township or ward shall be divided in forming either a senatorial or representative district.”

Fair Districts PA invites all interested residents in Berks, Chester and Montgomery counties to come learn more about the efforts to ensure that our maps are: Not red. Not Blue. Just Fair.

House Bill 23 creates, by statute, an Independent Citizens

Commission to draw congressional maps. House Bill 22 extends the role of the Independent Citizens Commission, by state constitutional amendment, to put the redistricting power for both our congressional and state legislative districts in the hands of an independent citizens commission.

Two bills will lead to one commission. Commissioners

would be randomly selected from a list of qualified candidates who would be held accountable to make the redistricting process fair, transparent and provide for meaningful public input.