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Redistricting is starting in North Carolina. Here's how you can get involved
Interested people who can’t make any of the public hearings this month — or who do, but also also want to weigh in again — can leave a written comment for lawmakers to consider, via the legislature’s website.
Lawmakers also decided to let any member of the public make an appointment to come in and draw proposed maps of their own on the redistricting computer at the General Assembly, with staff available to help navigate the software.
The hearings themselves are open to anyone who wants to attend. People who want to speak have to sign up beforehand, either online or in person. The online signup page will close four hours before each meeting, lawmakers said, and the in-person signups will begin an hour before each hearing.
The online signup form can be found on the left side of the legislative website homepage at www.ncleg.gov.
Lawmakers also decided to let any member of the public make an appointment to come in and draw proposed maps of their own on the redistricting computer at the General Assembly, with staff available to help navigate the software.
The hearings themselves are open to anyone who wants to attend. People who want to speak have to sign up beforehand, either online or in person. The online signup page will close four hours before each meeting, lawmakers said, and the in-person signups will begin an hour before each hearing.
The online signup form can be found on the left side of the legislative website homepage at www.ncleg.gov.
Here are the details we know so far about the public hearings. Specific locations on college campuses have yet to be announced for many, but those details will be sent in future email notices to people who sign up for them.
Time, date, location of NC redistricting hearings
Wednesday, September 8
▪ Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute: Broyhill Center, 1913 Hickory Blvd., Lenoir, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, September 14
▪ Forsyth Technical Community College, in Forsyth County, 4 p.m.
▪ Elizabeth City State University, in Pasquotank County, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, September 15
▪ Durham Technical Community College, in Durham County, 6 p.m.
▪ Nash Community College, in Nash County, 5 p.m.
Thursday, September 16
▪ Alamance Community College, in Alamance County, 5 p.m.
▪ Pitt Community College, in Pitt County, 3 p.m.
Tuesday, September 21
▪ Western Carolina University, in Jackson County, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, September 22
▪ Central Piedmont Community College, in Mecklenburg County, 3 p.m.
Thursday, September 23
▪ Mitchell Community College, at the Iredell County campus, 3 p.m.
Tuesday, September 28
▪ UNC-Pembroke, in Robeson County, 4 p.m.
Wednesday, September 29
▪ UNC-Wilmington, in New Hanover County, 5 p.m.
Thursday, September 30
▪ Fayetteville Technical Community College, in Cumberland County, 6 p.m.
For more info on signing up for e-mail notices, or drawing your own maps, see the link
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article253985763.html#storylink=cpy
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