Public Meetings on Redistricting to be Held across the State: Tomorrow, June 23 June 22, 2011
Greetings!
Every 10 years, the state legislature is responsible for redrawing voting district lines. This process is often highly controversial because how districts are drawn can affect who is elected. See below for a notice from the Senate and House Committees on Redistricting about how you can become aware and get involved in the redistricting process. ------------------------------ The Senate and House Committees on Redistricting will hold public hearings TOMORROW, Thursday, June 23 from 3-9 p.m. in various locations around the state. - Please note that in order to speak at the hearing, you must sign up either online before 3 pm TODAY or in person starting an hour before the hearing and ending before the hearing begins.
Click the links below for directions. Wake County History Museum, First Floor Auditorium 5 East Edenton Street
Raleigh, NC 27601-1011 http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/pav/GenInfoPAV.html Cumberland County Fayetteville Technical Community College Cumberland Hall, Room 366 2201 Hull Road Fayetteville, NC 28303 http://www.faytechcc.edu/pages/FTCCTextDirections.asp Guilford County Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown Campus, Learning Resource Center (Library) Room 325 601 High Point Road Jamestown, NC 27282 http://www.gtcc.edu/campusInfo/index.html Mecklenburg County The University of North Carolina at Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library Room 143
9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 http://www.uncc.edu/directions New Hanover County UNC Wilmington Education Building Room 266 601 S. College Road, Wilmington NC 28403 http://www.uncw.edu/ba/directions_uncw.htm Pitt County East Carolina University The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University Brody Medical Sciences Building, Room # 2E
600 Moye Blvd Greenville, NC 27834 www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/dhs/directions.cfm Hertford County Roanoke-Chowan Community College Jernigan Building Room 126 109 Community College Road Ahoskie, NC 27910 http://www.roanokechowan.edu/directions.htm
Additional Information:
Registration for speaking will begin: 1) At the hearing site: 1 hour prior to the convening of the hearing, and will close prior to the beginning of the hearing. 2) On-line: 5 days in advance of the hearing and will close 24 hours in advance of the hearing. There are limited slots for on-line sign-up. Please visit the following link to sign-up to speak at any of the locations for the June 23rd Public Hearing: http://www.ncleg.net/applications/rts/Redistricting.aspx?id=19. Each speaker will be limited to five minutes. To view the Veteran's Rights Act districts being proposed by the joint House and Senate Redistricting Committee leadership, visit http://www.ncleg.net/redistricting.
Sincerely, Action for Children North Carolina | 
